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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r. H.

(00:05):
Guarden Line with Skip Rictor.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Just watch him as sets.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Not a side.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Hello, good morning, Welcome. We're glad you're with us here
on garden Line today. I'm your host, Skip Richteror. Thanks
for listening in. We are here to answer your gardening questions.
That's what we're all about here. And uh, I just
was visiting with some folks and we were our appearance
up there at the Montgomery County Home Show.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
And it's amazing how many gardening questions people have, and
when you answer one, it just leads to another one
and then to another one. And that's okay. That's why
we're here, and that's what I enjoy doing. If you
have a question, we invite you to call in. We'll be
glad to visit with you and you know, work out
the details of either identifying or diagnosing or whatever the

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thing is. Listen, we are on the doorstep of fall.
I know we've got some warm weather this week, but
you know how it goes. Every year we have what
we call false fall. We get a little cool breeze
come through, and that happened the other day and we
all get the false spirit in us and then here
comes heat right back. And that's okay, because it's still
time to do things. It's time to get things done,

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and it's very important to do things on time. Don't
look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. That's the
way I'd like to put it. Don't look at the thermometer,
look at the calendar. And when you look at the calendar,
you can see right now there's a number of things
we can be doing. For example, we're going to be
doing our fall fertilization very soon, and you need to

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go pick up your products for that. Nitrofoss has something
called their Fall Special Winter Riser. It's very rich, got
a lot of phosphorsin to help with the root system,
but most importantly, it's really high in potassium. Potassium helps
a grass plant prepare for winter hardiness. Think of it
this way. Potassium helps the grass plant make ana freeze
that makes the grass even more hearty, and also it

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helps the grass come out in the spring vigorously and healthy.
Coming out of spring, the fall fertilization is the most
important fertilization for having a healthy lawn in spring and
for it coming out. Secondly, the second step of their
three step is to head off the weeds. A nitro
fross barricade is a pre emergent look at my schedules

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online at gardening with Skip dot com. It tells you
exactly when to do it. Put the barricade down and
prevent all the cool season weeds that'll be a problem
next spring when they take off growing. They sprout this
fall and you got to stop them. Number three, you
put on a nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide. It's a systemic protecting.
It's a securative funge a side that actually promotes healthy turf.

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So are you worried about large patch or brown patch
the big circles Nitropass Eagle turf fungicide. You're going to
find this at a number of different places. You know,
you're going to find it at places like Plants for
All Seasons on two forty nine, or Katie Hardware or
the gym's hardware up there in Montgomery. Nitrofoss three step

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makes it real easy. One, two, three. We're going to
be talking about a number of things today. I'm just
gonna mention something right off the bat. I'm going to
be at the Willbird's Unlimited in clear Lake later today,
So after the show, I'm going to head over that way.
I'll get there about eleven thirty and let's see, we'll
be there till one thirty. We're gonna be drawing for

(03:55):
a lot of products, things like hummingbird nectar with nectar defender,
new variety of seed blends actually, and I'll be giving
away some other products as well for everybody who shows up,
as long as supplies last. Remember, migration is underway. Hummingbirds
are here Baltimore, orioles are coming through. They'll be doing
it all this month and into October. That doing it

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meaning the arriving in our spot, get a bite to
eat and continue on with their migration and we it's
enjoyable when you have a feeder and you can bring
them in to that feeder. Out in the lawn. This week,
I was going through looking for some signs of fall aster.
Fall Aster is a weed that you don't renoice during

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the year unless your lawn is really struggling. Then the
fall aster stands out. But it's almost a blue green
weed that grows down really low in the almost the
thatch area of the lawn sticks this little leaves up
where they can get some light. And if it were
if you weren't mowing the lawn, the weed would be,
you know, over knee high. It gets very tall, but

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in a lawn it knows how to adjust to mowing.
And in probably maybe October we'll start to see the
little blooms from that, depending on where you live north
and south in the listening area. And when you see
the blooms, that's when everybody gets alarmed about it, and
so just be checking for it and when you see them.
The easiest thing to do for fall aster at this

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point in the season is to pull it up, ham
pull it up what the soil, make sure the lawn
soil is moist, and just get down on hens and knees.
It has one spot where it comes out of the ground, taproot,
so it's easy to wiggle it up right out of there.
During most of the season, if you knew you were
looking for it and treating for it, you could use
a broadly post emergent product on it. But once these

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weeds go what we call reproductive, meaning they're blooming and
they're setting seeds, it's a little late. The products that
would have worked at that stage of the weed, we're
not going to accomplish much. So just a little tip
there on with the fall aster and we certainly do
have to deal with fall uster. When was the last

(06:05):
time you're at at Arburgate. I swung by the other
day and I'm telling you they are set up for
fall of whatever kind of decorations. If you need the
landscape blane, you know, things put out in your yard
and stuff just for decorating for fall, whether it's the
Halloween or whether it's decorating for just the harvest season.
You know that feel of the harvest season with all

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the orange and golden and yellow and maroonish colors that
you put out. Well, Arburgate's got you covered on all
of that. While you're there, you need to pick up
their one two three system because on guard line, I
always say brown stuff before green stuff, meaning before you
put the plants in the ground, get the soil right.

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And that's what the one two three system is. It's
a soil and it's a fertilizer for anything with roots,
and then it is a compost that can be mixed
as well into the soil of blend and you pick
all the three of those up. You put those together
into the soil and your plan is ready to go.

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And that's important. And they've got that there at Arburgate.
Remember they got the new parking lot new. I'll say
it's new for another year or two probably, but it's
been a long time coming. But boy is that ever
nice and convenient. It's off Trischel Road behind Arburgate. So
whether you're coming out twenty nine to twenty from Tomball
or coming in the other way, you just turned on

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Trishel Road, it's before or after Arburgate. It's a loop
that goes out behind. It makes it real easy to
do there. The Ace Hardware stores here in our area
are amazing in their everything ness. In other words, if
I talk about a fertilizer for your lawn, if I

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talk about you know, you need to use this insect,
a sider fundicide or herbicide or whatever it is, Ace
Hardware's got them. And there's forty Ace Hardware's here in
the Great Houston area. So that makes it really really
easy to find everything you need. You want to do
some outdoor decorating and some outdoor enjoyment on the evenings

(08:10):
as are getting cooler, Ace Hardware's got everything you need
for the patio as well. Acehardware dot Com find the
forty stores near you by going to the store locator. Well,
I got to take a little break. We'll do the
last segment seven one three two one two k t
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You can give us a call. We'll be happy to
visit with you about whatever kinds of questions that you
might have. I've talked about Quality Home Products of Texas
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the way they do business without a doubt, you know,
and so do a lot of other people. They've served
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award winning. I'm talking about the Better Business Bureau's most
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(09:13):
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and then after the sale, they're there to continue to
maintain that unit and to help you when you need
that peace of mind. And boy, do we ever need
some of that this year with all the storms that

(09:54):
we endured. Let's go on out to the phones and
we're going to talk to John Tomball. Hello, John, Welcome
to guard Line.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Hi.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
I we have a pool and I also have a
nosy neighbor who likes to watch my wife. If that's
I can say that on the radio.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Uh, but yeah, go ahead, right right.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
So we're thinking that we want to put some crape
myrtles up and line the fence with them so that they'll,
you know, raise above the fence line. The question is
we're trying to decide.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
On the color.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
We really like the dark red ones and the white ones.
If I like red white, red white, red white all
the way down the fence line. Yes, does that like
when they propagate or whatever? Will I have you know,
pink ones next year? Will I have no?

Speaker 4 (10:56):
No, that's okay.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Plant will always produce that color loom and so yes,
you can do that. Just watch the height of them
crate myrtles. There are crp myrtles that get two feet tall,
and there's crape myrtles that get thirty five feet tall,
and so you want to make sure they're all going
to have foliage in the area where you want them
to have foliage. So that's part of picking the right
varieties and also training them well. John, if you will

(11:21):
go on, if you use Google or whatever search engine,
type in skip Richter and crape myrtle, and you should
get a chart that shows you. Not everyone on the market.
There's a lot of new ones since I put that
chart out, but you can see what I'm talking about
on heights, and there's pictures of the CRP myrtles too,
So you go, I like that penguin, I like this
white one, and they're about the right size. That's what

(11:43):
I recommend. Just remember when you use crapes to a
screen of view. You just need to not go swimming
in early spring or later in the fall, because some
crape already's starting to drop.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
Leaves, right right, Okay, Yeah, it'll definitely be an experiment.
But we like the really really really like those dark
red ones, so that's what we were going to try.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah. Well, and you're in Tombol. You know, you've got
the Arbigate Nursery right out there outside of town. They're
gonna have a lot of varieties and if they don't
have one, they probably could order it for you or
one that will be a good replacement. Okay, okay, fair enough,
all right, sir, take care, thanks for thanks, Yes, sir,
that is very very important, very important. You know Nelson

(12:28):
plant Food, I've talked about it before. You know, they're fertilizers.
They have fertilizers for every month of the I mean,
no matter what month it is, they've got the appropriate
fertilizer to be putting out at that month at that time.
But they also have a product called genesis. Now, genesis
is something that you put in when you're transplanting. It's
a nutrient, but it also has microbes in it, and

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so if you're going to bump a container you bought
into a larger container that's soil, and the larger container
needs to Genesis already mixed into it. If you're going
to take let's say you're gonna plant a rosebush this fall,
or any tree, you take the soil around where you're
gonna plant in that hole and you mix in Genesis

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with it. It's not gonna burn, but just mix it
into the soil where you're planting, whether it's a garden
bed or you know, or a landscape bed. Genesis is
an outstanding product. I was so surprised when I first
used it.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
For me.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
It was bumping some tomatoes up. They were in little, tiny,
six pack sized tomatoes. I was putting them in four
inch pots and I mixed Genesis into the soil and wow,
they they moved on. And that's from Nelson Plant Food.
It's widely available and it's an outstanding product. We're going
to go now to Glenn in Cyprus. Hello Glenn, welcome

(13:46):
to Guardline.

Speaker 7 (13:48):
Hey Skip, Harry, I'm.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Good, I'm good. Thanks.

Speaker 7 (13:52):
Hey, I just had a question on using a weed
killer on something.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
I had a.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
Patch of yopop that pibably like the size of a
bed of a pickup truck, where there was like over
a hundred of them, and I thind them out to
where there's only like twelve left and strip them up
and just have them coming out on the top. All
the suckers that come up from the bottom, Well, I

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damage the other plants if I just spray the yes,
the new growth coming.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Up, Yeah you will. The reason round up works well
is because it trendslocates down into the roots. It kills
the whole plant, and so yes that that would be
a disaster. You're just gonna have to cut them down
back down you open the larger types, especially they're they're notorious.
If you can dig down and try to take it

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off right where it joins whatever it's attached to, a
root or the trunk or whatever, take it out there,
you will have a little less of that suckering. But
it's the nature of that species to want to do that.

Speaker 8 (15:04):
Yeah, I had a filling.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
I would just have a chore, a chore on my hands.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yeah, for a long time.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
Yeah, So I just wanted to make sure there was
in some way I could damper that from coming up
so fast. If I hit them quick when they're real small,
they're they're tender, and they're easy just to I usually
just weed et them.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, yeah, that that would be a good idea to
try that. I'm not a fan of those surface fabrics
you know that block are supposed to block weeds, because
they end up weeds end up on top of them
and still a problem. But that with something to weigh
it down, you know, like a little rock malts kind
of area around them that would suppress them because they

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wouldn't be able to push up through that. But but
you definitely would need something weighing it down because they're
just going to lift that right up.

Speaker 6 (15:54):
Sure, I understand.

Speaker 7 (15:56):
Okay, well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
You bet. Thanks then I appreciate appreciate your very much.
Southwest Fertilizer has been around since the nineteen fifties. And
what I say about Southwest is if they don't have it,
you don't need it. And that is really true. When
you go in there, you need to go by check
it out. It's corner of Bisinette and Renwick in Southwest Houston.

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If you want the website, it's Southwest Fertilizer dot com.
But just you need to go in the store because
It's amazing the selection of things that they have. It's
just pretty much everything you could possibly need. An eighty
foot long wall of tools. You know, some of you
are building that skips weed wiper that I put on
my website by the way, if you want to see that,

(16:41):
it's gardening with Skip dot Com. Some of you are
building that. Well, Bob's got the standard grabber tool that
you use to build that, and he, you know, he
can give you the products that go with that, depending
on whether you're going after woody ornamentals or grass or
sedges or whatever it is. Bob is always is going
to be on top of things while you're in there.

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Take a look at the kneeling bench. I think it's
the coolest thing. It'll change your gardening life, especially if
you're somewhere north of forty years old, because it's easy.
It's a seat, it's also a kneeling bench, and the
legs then become handles to help you get back up.
And you know, if you go to your knees and
get up about how many times do we do that

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on a good Saturday in the garden, eight hundred times? Well,
it'll keep you from waking up in the pre natal
position the next morning when your body says, you will
never do that to me again. Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer
dot Com. Corner of Bussinette and Runwick. We're going to
go out now to Cypers and talk to Ed. Hello, Ed,

(17:44):
Welcome to guard Line. Good morning morning. I've got two questions.
One is what is your opinion or.

Speaker 9 (17:53):
Pruning paint or pruning dressing.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
You go ahead, going to give me both of you
want to get me to go one at.

Speaker 9 (18:01):
A do okay, I'll give you the other one. The
other one has to do with fertilize, and I never
can get an even spread of the fertilizer. I end
up with these green lanes. Yeah, oh my lawn, and
I use a broadcast of better that's good. And it
doesn't seem to matter what steady and it's on. I

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still have those okay stripes.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
You just need to you know, depending on how fast
you walk, that wheel spinds faster and it will sling farther.
So have number one, have a certain pace that you're
walking to put it out and just notice how far
out it's going on the sides. And then when you
come the other way, make sure you're as close to

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the right distance as you can. And I'm sure you're
already doing that, but make sure and do that. And
then what I would do the other thing is to
I'll just use umpus directions if you if you'll take
half about what you're going to apply and go north
south and then turn around take the other half and
go east west. That helps blend it out a little

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bit as well, okay, uh, And that that would be
the main thing. And the stronger the fertilizer is, the
higher the nitrogen content, the less you're gonna use. Uh.
And so sometimes people get a good stout fertilizer, which
is fine, you just would need to use less and
they still apply a higher rate and that also makes
it a little difficult to not stripe.

Speaker 9 (19:32):
Some of these fertilizers don't give you a setting for
the particular broadcast spreader.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, yeah, I have, So.

Speaker 9 (19:41):
How do you figure that instead of doing a bunch
of math?

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Well, in general, just if you're this is a general
guide because there's not a specific answer because there's really
so many different spreaders and different fertilizer products and whatnot.
But if you'll put the setting a notch or two
above half way. So let's say there were twenty notches
for that spreader. Eleven or twelve would be about where

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you put it, okay, And if there are, you know,
five notches, then you're going to put it at about three.
You see what I'm saying, just a little bit above halfway.

Speaker 10 (20:17):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (20:18):
So then the two things that I need to be
doing is the two things I need to be doing
is take it, be careful not to overlap. Yeah, well,
washing the spreader right and walk at the same pace.
And then yes, the third thing would be to.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Do half of yeah pattern, Hey, Ed, I've got I've
got to go to a break for the news. But
good luck at that. And uh, I think it's going
to work for you. All right, We're going to go
to new turn them around in a circle and dial them.
I still say dial. We don't dial anymore anyway, call
us at seven one three two one two k t
R H. I know some of you are remember that too,

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seven one three two one two.

Speaker 11 (21:01):
H.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
The folks at Medina have a wide variety of products,
and I could spend a whole show talking about all
the different Medina products that are out there. One of
them been around for a long time. It's kind of
a standard with Medina is a soil activator. Soil activator
has some micronutrients in it, which is good, and it

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also has all kinds of biological activity that helps the soil.
The original biological activator for the soil derived from a complex.
It's got a complex of different kinds of biocatalysts in it,
and people have used Medina soil Activator and sworn by
it for years. Another product that is an outstanding one

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for medina's Medina Plus, and so it's going to contain
similar things to the first one I mentioned, but also
some additional nutrient content. Medina Plus is a combination of
that soil activator and then it's fortified with seaweed extracts,
so it's high end micro nutrients. It's got natural plant
growth regulators, and if you're going to do any transplanting,

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it would be an excellent product to water. There's new
plants in You can get it on the foldage and
you will drench it on the roots. All of that,
all of the above, it's not going to burn your plants.
Just follow the label and you will have really think
a surprising result with the Medina Plus and the Medina
so Ale Activator. You are listening to garden Line. Our

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phone number is seven one three two one two k
t r H seven one three two one two k
t r H. I was mentioning earlier that if you
go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you
can find a number of things. One of them is
the there is a how to build a weed wiper

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and you just have to go there. I'm not going
to try to describe it to you, but it's really
easy to make. When you look at it, you just
go I can do that myself, and you can probably
improve on it yourself, because it's just one way to
do It's the way I've done it. There is an
outstanding publication on tip tips for winning the War against Nutsedge,
and I say outstanding because I spent a long time

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researching this and trying things myself through the years. What
are our options for that? It's a one pager. Then
the one that I hope you will read. I know
people don't like to read a lot, but it's called
going Nuts over Nuts Edge, Going Nuts over Nutsedge, and
these are all free. Above everything on the website is
free and it goes into detail on the two kinds

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of nutsedge and some other stuff that you probably didn't
know about it, and these are very important if you
want to have success. I'm fighting two battles with nutsedge myself.
I got some really nice, fine textured turf. It's called
it's a zoysia called Xeon, and it's an outstanding thing.

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But boy, when the nutsedge sticks, it's it's leaves up
above the turf, it re shows up. And so I'm
dealing with it. They are and in a flower bed.
And if you will follow what's on that information sheet
that I created, it will work. You just have to
stay with it. Also there you're going to find my schedules,
my lawn care schedule, and we are at the doorstep

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of applying our fall fertilizers. For those of you that
are listening, I'll say way up north, like Huntsville or
someplace like that. The time you apply comes a little
earlier than someone down in Galveston, for example, where it
doesn't get as cold as fast. And so anyway, lawn
care schedule, and then the lawn pest disease and we'd

(24:38):
management schedule, and we are entering the season now where
we treat for brown patch or large patch, and it's
also the season where we treat for take all root rot.
And then it's also the season where we put a
pre emergent down our winter weeds, things like the hen

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bet and chick weed, carpetweed and clovers and all of those.
They're sprouting in the fall when it cools off a
little bit, and then they sit there all winter, and
then in spring we have a mess on our hands.
And so if you look at the schedule, you'll see
all of that. It gives you a list of products,
both organic and synthetic for dealing with all of those. Well,

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let's go now to Katie, Texas. We're going to talk
to Sam. Hello, Sam, good morning.

Speaker 12 (25:27):
I have a bunch of citrus trees and they're getting
some whitish substance powdery looking thing on the leaves and
they're shrivalling. They're shriveling up. I wondered if there any
spray or anything for that, and what would you recommend.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
You may have more than one thing going on. Your
description kind of sounds like maybe more than one thing
to me, but the primary thing, the shriveling up. I'm
pretty sure that's going to be the citrus leaf minor.
And if you'll get a leaf that's doing that, and
you'll look at it really close, you should see some

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sir some trails through the leaf. It's a serpentine type trail,
you know, just wiggles and goes all around all through
the leaf. And if you see that, that's a citrus
leaf miner. Citrus leaf miner. You got a couple of options.
Number One, you can do nothing. They're not going to
kill your tree. They take a little foliage out, but
the trio grow more foliage. They primarily attack tender new growth,

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which we're kind of done having now. I mean it's
going to cool off in a little bit here in
the citrus quit putting out in new growth, and so
it would be waiting until next spring to act against
them when they start showing up again. So whenever you
have a flesh and new growth, that's when you would
spray the leaves. Only the leaves that are the flush
of new growth, the old, dark, leathery leaves. Leaf miner

(26:56):
doesn't attack those, so that that'd be some Now some
people just ignore it. But if I had a young
tree and I was trying to get it to really
grow up fast and get big. So it has a
lot of oranges or whatever kind of citrus on it.
I would probably do some spring during the first three years.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Maybe what spray would you recommend?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
There's the safest is a product called spin No sad.
It's spi No sa d spin No said, yeah, and
it's an organic product and you spray it on the foliage.
It soaks in, so the miner that's already in the leaf,

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it will kill them too.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Okay, all right, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yes, sir, good luck with those citrus plants. I know
you'll you'll do well. Puercescapes is the landscape company, design
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(28:04):
like some landscape lighting.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's also a company that can fix your irrigation issues
that pop up. It's a company that can do pretty
much anything you need, including improving the drainage on an area.
So just called pier scape, I say, go to the
website peerscapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. And the reason
is you will get an idea on the amazing work

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that they do at Pierscapes. Every time I look at it,
it's like I think of ten more things I need
in my backyard. We're going to take a break. Our
phone number is seven to one three two one two, Katie.
You know when it when it comes to organic types
of products. So one of the first things I think
of is Microlife. Microlife has been creating organic products for

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a very long time, and they they have such excellent products,
such outstanding products actually that just flat work they do. Microlife.
For example, they have got the biomatrix. The biomatrix is
a really good product for anything that you're going to plant,

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any whether you're fertilizing an existing plant or whether you're
transplanting or whatever. Biomatrix is in an orange bottle. It
is a liquid. Now they also have they had a
bunch of liquid type products, but they've got the fish
emulsions in the seaweed, which organic gardeners know that combination
is an excellent way to fertilize plants as well. But

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I want to just talk about that biomatrix for just
a moment. It is loaded with microbes. It has the
nutrients in seven percent nitrogen seven one three or four.
I just went blank on the actual last number seven
one four, I believe. And I've used it on houseplants.
I've used it outdoors. It's not going to burn a plant,

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but it will not only feed the plant but also
enhance microbial activity in the soil, and that is very important.
And it's just one of many quality products that you
can get for Microlife. It's Microlifefertilizer dot com. That's a
website you can find out where to get it. But
I can just tell you this, it's widely available. You're
going to feed stores, you going to garden centers, you
go into ACE hardware stores or Southwest Fertilized. You're going

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to find products like Microlife Biomatrix. We're going to head
now out to San Leon and talk to Ted. Hello, Ted,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (30:24):
Hey. This is Ted normally from Sant Leon, but I'm
visiting in Myerland this week.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 13 (30:31):
You advised about a month ago that uh yeah, it's
okay to still go ahead and put out some superturf,
not cross super turf. I did, and I did. It
was second's despair before the rain started. Worked out beautifully,
work out beautifully. Got a couple of weeks the nice rain.
But uh, how am I going to store that half

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a bag that's left?

Speaker 14 (30:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Just just you know, fold it up, you know, as
tight as you can. I use those big old giant
clips alligator clips on it. But you can have a
duct tape to hold it down or whatever, just to
keep you know, moisture from the air from in there.
And that's that's what I would do. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (31:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (31:15):
Randy used to advise, well, if there's any clumps, it's
no good. But you know, uh, if I see a
few clumps, I don't easily worry about it too much.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, sometimes they're not. Sometimes they can easily be broken apart,
sometimes a piece of concrete.

Speaker 13 (31:29):
So I just kind of, yeah, a little advice. The
guy that called earlier about the crape myrtles to shield
his pool. Uh, boy, of those crape myrtle blossoms will
plug up a section filter on a.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Pool quick, okay.

Speaker 13 (31:41):
And so anyway, that's something to consider. There's a marina
down here in Seabrook that has them all along there.
And they take a fire hose and knock the blossoms
off so they don't get into the boats. And uh,
they can cover the boats. Yeah, and they leave stains.
So anyway, but anyway, your show.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah a great, Yeah, appreciate, appreciate the call. Okay, you
take care by bye. All right. You're listening to garden Line.
Our phone number if you'd like to give us a
call seven to one three two one two k t
r H. Seven one three two one two k t
r H. I was kind of perusing I guess you'd

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say the uh in Chenna Gardens social media. I follow
a lot of our sponsors on social media and you
should too, by the way. Uh, it's you find out
what's coming up. I mean, if they're going to have
an event or a speaker, you find out about what
products they just got in and you kind of get
a head start on that before somebody else makes a run.
But they were Uh, I was just noticing that they

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they do a lot of things with making containers that
are mixed containers, meaning there's several different kinds of plant
and that is really a beautiful, a beautiful result. And
for example, you could do that with just herbs, or
you could do it with herbs combined with other things.
You can do it with flowers. We're entering the fall season,

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so how about a croaton in the middle of it,
and then you've got some other fall colored flowers that
are also part of it. They've got everything you need
for that out there now. They also have the plants
for whatever season we're in. They've also got things like
the fertilizers and the products, the soils and multius and
things that you need to have success. And they have

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expert advice. When you go to Anchinna Gardens, you're going
to have folks that know what they're talking about that
can guide you and help you. And us entering now
the Halloween and Thanksgiving a season, every kind of plant
you can imagine that fits that season is going to
be on front display. But just go there take a friend,

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because this is a destination garden center out in the
Richmond Rosenberg area. It's on north of Richmond Rose. Excuse me,
Richmond Rosenberg. It's up toward the KD direction and that
is Enchanted Gardens. By the way, the road is FM
three point fifty nine, Richmond, Texas address. Well, I think

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we're running. Uh, let's see, we still got time maybe
for a real quick call seven one three two one
two k t r H seven one three two one
two k t r H gist call. We'll be able
to help you with whatever kinds of questions that you
might have.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
You know, I'm the broken record on the soil.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Everything begins in the soil. Plants success begins in the soil,
and so if you want to have success with whatever
you're planting, the soil has got to be suitable for
that plant. And one of the things that soiled typically
down here we don't have adequate amount of, especially clays, uh,

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is oxygen down in the soil. Did you know plant
roots need oxygen. You know, we think about plants they
breathing carbon dioxide and they breathe out oxygen. That makes
us in plants go well together because we're the opposite.
But plants also use oxygen, not as much as they produce.

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But there's part of the cycle with plants is having
oxygen to do the things some of the things that
they need to do. And if your soil is loose,
if your soil has good compost content, good organic matter
content in a clay, a lot of expanded shale helps
as well. Is even a longer term thing you're going
to have success. And if you're looking for the one

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stop shop for brown stuff, that is Cienomalts Cienamalts down
just north of Roast Sharing. They have all the different
things I'm talking about, a wide variety of things that
make your soil better. Compost and bed mixes. For example,
if you wanted the heirloom soils, veggie and herb mix

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that go to Siana Maltch. They've got it. They have
it there. If you're needing a good top dressing maltz
to go on top of the soil, go to Siena Maltz.
They have it there. If you're needing a fertilizer, every
fertilizer I talk about on garden line and then some
are there at Ciena malt If you need things like stone,

(36:28):
if you need gravel or rocks for decorations and whatever,
they've got that there at Ciena malt When you drive
into Ciana Malts and drive out, you have everything you
need to have success with your plants. They deliver within
about twenty miles of their location, but you just need
to go. It's an outstanding place again. They are on

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FM five point twenty one, just north of Rosharon cianamltch
dot com. And by the way, they treat you well
there too, very friendly, and it just it feels like
you're going to visit with family when you walk inside
of Sienamultch. We're running pretty close to the break here,

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so I think it won't start start up something new.
I do want to remind you that today I'm going
to be at the clear Lake wild Bird's Unlimited Store. Okay,
clear Lake wild Bird's Unlimited Store. And in my garden
some hummingbirds showed up. I haven't been in the past

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a big hummingbird feeder. Of course, I'm getting more and
more into birds these days. But the clear Lake wild
Bird's Unlimited Store as where I'll be from eleven thirty
to one thirty. Now, that is where El Dorado and
clear Lake City Boulevard come together. El Dorado Boulevard, clear
Lake City Boulevard down in clear Lake. All of you

(37:53):
in the region down there, if you have some samples
of plants, put them as up like bag, bring them in,
we'll identify them, we'll diagnose them, we'll last rites. If
that needs to be done. Do you have things you
want identify same thing? Bring phone pictures in. Just make
sure where you come in they're close up and they
are crisp, sharp focus. So you know, a fuzzy photo
gets you a fuzzy answer. I don't want to give

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you a fuzzy answer. So they're like wallbirds on them.
We're going to be given away a number of different products.
I'm bringing some stuff to give away. They'll be like
hummingbird nectar defender. That's an outstanding product. I use it
in in my hummingbird nectar in this warm weather sugar
water goes bad pretty quick. With nectar defender in it,
it lasts a lot longer, and it's it's an excellent

(38:37):
product for the burden. They're going to give away some
other stuff, some of their seed blends, for example. So
they're like wallbirds. If you live south, if you live east,
south or southeast, come and see me today. I have
you know that I was talking earlier, you know about
the importance of preparing soil, of the importance of making

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sure that when you are doing something to your lawn
or your flower beds or your garden or whatever, that
you provide the nutrients it needs, and you provide oxygen
in the soil that you create the ideal soil environment.
And that it's I'm a broken record on it, but
it's because I know that is the first step the

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key to success. When you plant a plant and walk
away the minute you've planted it, or a seed for
that matter, you are I'm going to say, eighty percent
of the way to success or failure at least seventy
five percent. And it's because you've chosen the plant, You've
prepared the soil, you put it in cent or shade,
and the plants can have an opinion about that. Does
it have nutrients, does it have good oxygen in the soil.

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All the stuff you do before you plant is the
vast majority of your success. And just remember that I
wor in Southern Gardens is out there in Kingwood Garden Center.
Both are out there in the Kingwood area, and boy,
they have a lot going on right now. They've got
citrus in the rangoon creeper is in stock and if
you've never seen a rangoon creeper, that is one showboat.

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In the summer, it's a vine and dies back to
the ground and then it comes back again and boy,
it is beautiful, beautiful. It's time to make sure that
your planters are in good shape for the fallseason. You
got your new plants in, you got good soil in.
Warrens can help you with that. And Kingwood Garden Center
do you know what Warrens. You can drop off existing
pots or you can buy a new one and have

(40:29):
a schedule and appointment visit the garden center or schedule
and appointment. They have a great selection to new pottery
if you need some. But they will help you create
a stunning arrangement that is really impressive. So if you
feel like I just don't know what to do, I
don't know what plants to put in, they'll give you
ideas for combos and that is really cool. You can

(40:49):
say five dollars on Microlife sixty four on the Microlife
brown Patch control on sweet Grain from nitroposs anarnaesumite through
the end of this month, five bucks off each bag.
They also have sales on Bugginator and Slow and Easy
and nitrofis super Turf. It's just a good time to go.
Tree sales going on right now. Thirty percent off any trees.

(41:14):
That's that is cool. That one called a traveler red bud,
that kind of it's a weeping type of redbud. And
of course they got a lot of different kinds of
trees as well. And why are you there? Just go
online and subscribe it to the Warrens newsletter. You'll find
out about all these kind of discounts and savings Warren
Southern Gardens and also out there Kingwood Garden Center in Kingwood.

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We're going to head now, let's see, we're going to
go out to Richmond and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
welcome to a guard line.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
Hey, thank you, skip Y.

Speaker 10 (41:44):
I got a boxwood that the leaves are yellowing, and
I know a couple of weekends back, y'all.

Speaker 15 (41:49):
Talk to someone about that.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
I was walking the doll as I couldn't really here
at pay attention to what they were doing. Yeah, there's
something about the bark on it, the discolouration at the
base or something.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Well, okay, box woods, there's different things that can affect them.
Nematodes when they occur in large enough numbers on the
roots and they build up over time, they make the
plant very inefficient at taking up water and nutrients, so
you end up with symptoms of nutrient deficiency or drought.

(42:21):
Typically drought types of damage. There is a root rot
that will kill roots, and as roots begin to die,
let's say over on the left side of the plant,
then you typically will notice a whole section of the
plant above that that's going to start to lose that cane.
Occasionally we have a sudden coal snap that can cost
splitting of the trunk. There's just different things that can happen.

(42:44):
I would follow the branch that when it turns completely
brown or tan and it's not alive, I'd follow that
branch down and cut it offward attaches to something else
that way.

Speaker 10 (42:56):
It's done it before over the years. It's but spody
nipped it there. But this one's like from the base
of it, running up the middle, over the top and
trying to spread outwards on one side.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
So yeah, it'd be a big chop to do.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Yeah, that would be But if it's dead, it's not
going to come back alive, so you might as get
it out of there, you know. If you well, if
you pull the plant up, it's easy to see them.
But if you don't, just get you a blast of
water and try to blast out some of the root
systems and you'll see little bumps, little knots, like a

(43:32):
string of pearls or something. Sometimes it's so bad it
looks like the Michelin man with all those a lot
of lumps and stuff. But that would be the nema
toads if you want to check for that. If you
were to scrape the base of the trunk kind of deeply,
scrape back the bark and you see brown in there,
then that's a sign of a root raight fungus that's

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working on it. So there's a lot of possibilities. We
can't you know, go into detail on each one, but
see what you see. If you have any further questions,
just call me back.

Speaker 10 (44:03):
Yeah, I just send you a photo tomorrow and hollo
back at you.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Okay, take care, appreciate the call very much. Yeah, that
nematodes and a lot of other things can really be
a problem. Landscaper's Pride has got an outstanding selection of
both soil blend products and mulch type products, so you

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know there's local company out here as part of the state.
They make a rose mix that is outstanding for success
with roses. They make a premium potting mix that is
like a Cadillac type mix. Got all kinds of great
stuff in it, including a nutrient release that'll last about
three months on that. It's just a great idea when

(44:50):
you're going to put in some perennials, when you're going
to plant some fall ornamentals, or maybe you already have
some that you can use. Some of their mulches, like
the black velvet mulch out there on the surface of
the soil. You can pile that up over the top
of a plant that is semi coal tender. You know,
you think some winter I'm gonna lose that thing. Well,
just pullow mulch over the crowded plant at the base

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of the plant and create a hold that soil warmth
in and that in and of itself is helpful. And
I love the color of the black velvet. It's not dyed.
It's beautifully dark and velvety. And then they also have
top soil. Does your lawn have some areas that need,
you know, kind of a hole you're gonna twist your ankle,
lint or something. You can use their topsoil product. It's

(45:32):
a high quality products. Got some some blend of a
compost in it. It's just going to give you a
really good result. All it, all of it is from
landscapers pride. We're going to head now. See nope, we're
going to head now do a break. And so Susan
and Patterson and George in Jersey Village, you will be

(45:52):
my first two up when we come right.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Back leaving a trail hurt feelings.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
I have to say this right now. The Metropolis got you.

Speaker 15 (46:05):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 16 (46:06):
I had a quick question about blueberries.

Speaker 15 (46:08):
I've read online.

Speaker 16 (46:09):
Some places say put them in those you know, those
big pots like the trees come in when you buy
big trees. Yes, to control the pH Other's places say no, no, no,
they have to be in the ground. I was wondering
what your opinion was on planting blueberries.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Blueberry doesn't care where it is as long as its
soil is well drained and slightly acidic. And so if
you have naturally acidic soil, you can just plant the soil. Uh,
you probably don't in your location, and so you can
bring in a bed mix that's acidic and create a
bed that's let's say, oh, I'd probably make it a

(46:45):
little over maybe a foot high, because it's going to
settle down in time. Sure, and the roots can go
out in that bed and essentially be growing in that.
Or the third thing is put them in a big
pot like that and put in acidic type bed mix
in the pot.

Speaker 16 (47:00):
Okay, so you think either way would works. There's not
one better the pot of the ground. Okay, Well I
would one on.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
The ground because there's less trouble in the pot. The
pot needs to be as big as a whiskey barrel.
Half whiskey barrel are bigger, don't put them in a whiskey barrel.
A little wrought out.

Speaker 17 (47:14):
But uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 (47:17):
The thing I read was, you know those pots like
when you buy a big tree. You know, I don't
know how big bows are, but those great big ones.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
So I've I've grown blueberries and half whiskey barrel type
pots before. It just got the water them a lot
in the summer because it's a limited.

Speaker 16 (47:31):
Okay, So it sounds like in the ground might be
Let me just say.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Let me say this. Water quality is very important. If
it's high pH water, if it's high sodium water, if
it's highed bikes in the water. So if you have
any way to set up a half whiskey bar I
mean a rain barrel or something to capture some water
that would be best and minimize bad water. Bad for blueberries,

(47:59):
maybe good for other plants, but not for blueberries.

Speaker 16 (48:01):
Okay, yeah, I'm kind of working on trying to get
a rain water harvesting thing going. So if you have
time for a quick question about killing vines. We have
this stickery vine. It looks kind of like a blueberry,
I mean a dewberry vine that it never makes anything
but really nasty stickers on our little thorns. I've heard
you talk to people about tricle pier for killing vines.

(48:25):
I'm trying to be organic, but I just cannot get
this stuff under control. Is it better if I cut
them off and then treat the new growth or can
I just put this stuff on the current growth or
is it one way.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
That's tracle pair definitely is not organic. But the way
I'm going to tell you to apply it is a
minimum amount of product to put in the environment, and
that is you cut the vine off or the tree,
you know, the little sprouting hackberry in your facetline or
the stuff, and you take tracle pair with one of

(48:56):
those little brushes that you get to paint with. It's
like a little and stick with a brush on the Yeah,
they get the tiny, smallest one and then just dip
it directly in some trickle, paer, and then dab it
on the fresh cut surface. When you cut them off,
it goes down in there and you can't get less
pesticide application than that.

Speaker 16 (49:18):
Okay, all right, that sounds great.

Speaker 15 (49:20):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 17 (49:21):
All right, good luck, thank you, yes, or thank you
so much about it?

Speaker 2 (49:25):
All right? You're listening to garden Line, and we are
glad you are. We're here to answer your gardening questions.
And if you'd like to give me a call, you
can just dial seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. We're going to go down to Jersey
Village and talk to George. Hello, George, Yeah, Skip, how's
it going? Good?

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Good?

Speaker 18 (49:43):
I got a meer lemon tree that's got the fruit
is about half right, So do I need to let
those riping on the tree or can I take them off?

Speaker 4 (49:51):
Well, they continue to ripen, they're not there.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Yeah, they're not going to continue to ripen off the tree,
but they'll be edible before. Don't wait on them to
turn completely yellow. That's too long on the tree.

Speaker 18 (50:05):
Okay, all right, is that you said to say no
to maybe as you said, I could take them off
and they were ripen But is that How do you
determine which ones I can do it too, which ones
I can't?

Speaker 2 (50:15):
You just kind of have to go online look it up,
you know. It's the term. The term for that for
any nerds that are listening is climac terek. Is it
a climac terek fruit or not? So you could do
a Google search for climac terek fruits that you know, okay,
and and that would give you pop up a list

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and then answer that question.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
Good, thank you you told me every day I need
to know.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Wow, that's good. Well, have a good rest to your day.
Then thank you, bye bye bye bye. That's funny. Oh gosh, well,
uh in Chenny Forrest out there in Richmond Rosenberg Is
it's a garden center. You need to go see.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I talk all the time about how how rich we
are with the garden centers around the Greater Houston area.
This is just a prime example of exactly that ended.
Chended Forest is It's an enchanting place. I love to
go there. Right now, they are loaded up on fall
color they of course have like Croton's I mentioned them earlier,

(51:21):
Those big old gaudy fall colored leaves just beautiful. You
can get that there. You can get anything you're looking
for still time. If you're doing some butterfly planting, you know,
they still have plenty of supplies for that. Trees and shrubs.
They do an outstanding job on that. Enchanted Forest is
just a place that you really need to go. I mean,

(51:43):
it's as simple as that. Whenever whenever I'm out there,
I always number one. I love visiting with the folks
because they're friendly and they treat you right, and they
know what they're talking about. But I always have to
wander around and I'm going to see new plants that
I haven't had before. You know, your fall herbs right
now a prime, prime example of some some really timely

(52:04):
things from Enchanted Forest. If you if you want to
go there, it's FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond,
Texas FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond,
you're heading up towards Sugar Lance can be way off
to the right. That's where you're going to go. Uh
and when you when you get there, tell them that
you heard about on guardline and that I don't know.

(52:24):
You just want to hear about all the wonderful things
that they have, and they'll get you plugged right in.
If you want the website, and I recommend that you do,
uh go there. It's enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.
Enchanted Forest Richmond, t X dot com. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

(52:48):
If you'd like to give me a call, we can
talk about other things that are of interest to you.
You you have, I'm sure many times heard me talk
about B and B two Pros, B and B turf Pros.
When it comes to putting a compost, stop dressing down,
when it comes to doing a deep core aeration, you're

(53:11):
not going to find a better place than B and
B turf Pros. They absolutely know what they're talking about,
and when they do a job, they do it right.
It's very important to them to take care of their
customers and I see this. I see it in their
ratings and just the you know, when I talk to
them what is important to you, I can just hear

(53:32):
that their goal is for you to be happy, not
for them to come to your property, get their money
and leave. It's for you to be happy because they
know that that gets talked about. People talk about the
job they did, and it just makes people happy. And
it's kind of folks that they are just to be
real honest with you about it. BnB turf pros dot

(53:53):
com is the website, and I said that a little incorrectly.
It's BB no end bbturfpros dot com. If you want
to give them a call seven to one, three two
three four fifty five ninety eight. It's a good time
now to go ahead and get that top compost top
dressing done before we get too late into the fall

(54:16):
and in the corrooration. The corrooration gets oxygen back down
in your soil where you can have success. You want
to do that before you apply your pre emergent ideally,
because then when you apply a pre emergent, you are
treating what is the surface of the soil. The idea
of taking core plugs out and dropping them on the surface,

(54:37):
which is so good for the lawn that could bring
new weed seeds up or something like that. So get
your compost top dressing corrooration done first, and then apply
your pre emergent weed killers let's see, let's go out
to southwest Houston and we're going to talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, good.

Speaker 19 (54:58):
Morning, how are you.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
I'm well things.

Speaker 20 (55:01):
I have a question about soide web worms. And I
don't know if this is the time of year, but
I've got a lot of moths of flying around my
lawn in the shrubbery.

Speaker 19 (55:14):
So is this the time for those?

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Well, it is a time that you can have those.
And if you go to my lawn pest disease, disease
and okay, management schedule, we carry the chinchbugs and side
webworm season out through September. The later you get, the
less likely it is to have some issues, especially with

(55:37):
the chinchbugs. But we're still within that window. And so
now there are a lot of moths that aren't side
web worms. And so just as you see moths as
not the problem. If you walk through your lawn and
moths come flying up out of the lawn and they
go a little distance and then they settle back into
the lawn, that is probably side web worms. That's kind

(55:57):
of the work. They're going to lay eggs that are
going to hatch out. Now isn't the time to treat
them because the larva aren't there yet that do the feeding.
But when you start to see a little bit of
feeding from the larva, that's the time to get a
pesticide down on them to take care of them. You
could also use you could use a nitropossbug out max now,

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water it in and get it in the thatch so
as those little creatures try to they hide in the
thatch during the day and then they come back out
at night to feed on your lawn. So you could
that would be another approach to them, because that product's
going to last a long time.

Speaker 19 (56:34):
Okay? Is that organic?

Speaker 2 (56:36):
No? It is not. If you want an organic control
for sideweb worms, spend no, said or bet, But you
have to have actively feeding young caterpillars that they're going
to spray the leaves and then they're going to eat
the leaves and they're going to get sick.

Speaker 19 (56:53):
Got you, okay, okay, thank you.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Very much, you bet, Thank you for the call. All right, folks,
time for is to take another break for the news.
The phone number if you'd like to give me a
call and be first up when we come back seven
to one three two one two k t R eight.
It's seven one three two one two ktr eight. For example,
their fall fertilization product is called carbo Load. Carbo Load

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is on my schedule. I talk about October being a
prime time for the applications of products that are going
to give you the fall blend, in other words, the
higher potassium a little lower nitrogen blend. And that's what's
in carbo Load. By the way, fourticon bag covers five
thousand square feet. And then you need to water it
in because it's going to have a pre emergent in

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it as well as the nutrients to fight the winter
weeds that will be sprouting in October. So late September
early October is the kind of the you know, the
gun goes off and the race begins. Let's get that done.
But I do want to say if you're do overseeding,
which I do not recommend people overseed their lawn with

(58:05):
rye grass or whatever. If you're going to do that,
you don't want to put a pre emergent down and
then overseed because the premergant will work that overseed is
a weed in the lawn, which is one reason I
don't recommend doing it. But just be aware of that.
And that's with any pre emergent that you might use
if you are looking for an outstanding product for transplanting

(58:25):
and fall is for planting Nutristar Genesis. It's one of
the products that comes in the clear jug the jar,
and Nutristar Genesis works very well at helping those plants
move in. It's got microise of fungi in there to
form a relationship with the roots and make the plant
more successful in taking up water and nutrients. And then

(58:47):
finally nutri Star Vegetable Garden. Hey, it's fall gardening time.
We're you know, we're not far away at all. In fact,
now is the time we could be planning the blue
leaf vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, courabie coming up a little bit.
That is going to be some of the winter greens
that we put in, like spinnerton. Let us carrots coming
up right now. You can be putting out charred and

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you can be putting out a lot of other things.
But you know, the vegetable garden product called nutri Star
Vegetable Garden, that is an outstanding product to give you
a slow release of nutrients over time and just to
help you have a more beautiful garden from the folks
at Nelson Plat Food. We're going to go now to
Fort Ping County and talk to Lee. Hello, Lee, welcome

(59:30):
to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (59:32):
Hey, good morning, sir. How are you.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
I'm well, Thank you, glad to hear that.

Speaker 14 (59:37):
Look.

Speaker 8 (59:37):
I talked to you a couple of weeks after Barrel.
I had a Texas Mountain Laurel that got laid down
by the wind and it was still alive. You told
me how to take care of it, which was I
basically stood it back up and I staked at three
sixty root stimulator this type of thing. Anyway, you know,

(01:00:02):
I'm shocked in a maze, but the darn thing is
just still alive. It's thriving.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:00:09):
My question is this long term?

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Now?

Speaker 8 (01:00:12):
I think you told me it needs to be staked
for several years long term. Is there anything I should
be doing to it? Or do I just leave it
alone and let it go? And what I'd like to
do is hang up and listen because it's hard to
hear on this phone.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
All right, Lee, you take care.

Speaker 8 (01:00:30):
Hey, thank you. I appreciate it you met.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
So we've had some storms that have knocked some trees
over and kind of the standard advice for those of
you hearing that call and going, oh, I've got a
tree that got knocked over in this hurricane or something,
do remember this. If the tree is under about three
years old, you're probably going to be able to stand
it up and it go forward. If it gets older

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than that, and there's not a magic thing that changes,
you know at three years and one day, but that's
kind of a rough guy. The older it gets, the
harder it is to do. And that past three years,
I'd say you probably need to pull it up and
just get you a new tree. Some people are very
determined and they'll make something work. But once a tree
is stood up, now you need it to grow a

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strong root system because remember it didn't have a strong
enough root system to withstand that storm that knocked it over.
So what happens when another storm comes. You need a
root system that's even better than the one you had before.
Do you see what I'm saying, And so it's going
to take several years to get that. You want the
tree to be able to move a little bit in
the wind if it can, because that is important, but

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continue to just give it time to get roots way
out in all directions and to become strong roots where
they have some structural support. So again three years is
not a magical number, but I would probably leave at
stake for about that long and then just kind of
watch it, maybe maybe have a steak, but some and

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that you know, it's very loose. I can move a
little bit, but at the same time, if it goes
too far that stake, we'll catch it for it moves
very far at all. That's just my advice on doing that.
And by the way, if you have tree issues of
any kind, Affordable Tree Service Martin and his wife Joe,
by the way, they're the owners. They still answer their
own phone. And so if you call Affordable Tree here's

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a number seven one three six nine nine twenty six
sixty three, you are going to get Martin r. Joe.
If you don't hang up, you call the wrong place.
Seven to one three. I'm saying this again, seven one
three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. If you
like to do things via the web, or you didn't
write the phone number down aff Tree Service dot com

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A f F the first letters in Affordable aff Tree
Service dot com. Guardline customers are the top priority. Let
him know you're a gardenline customer. Martin stays busy because
he does a good job. That's it. He can come
out and he can You know, there will be a
charge to come out and look at the property and
look at the trees and give you advice. If you

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hire him to do something, the come out fee, it
just goes into the cost. Okay, he can do consultations,
he can do pruning, deep root feeding, pest control, stop grinding.
If you lost trees during that last storm, just know
that you need to call Martin an Affordable Tree. And
if you had just bought a low piece of property
and you've got beautiful trees on it and you want

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to build a house, you have to talk to someone
that knows what they're doing before the folks come in
and start making trenches and doing all the things that
are so hard on trees that have been grown in
a forest. Do not let a builder get on the
property to start work until you've had Martin come out

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from Affordable Tree to take a look. I just can't
stress the importance of that enough. I have seen over
my thirty five years and an agro life Extension horse
culture agent on many occasions, Big beautiful natural tree out
there in the forest. They build a house, sometimes even
going around the tree kind of and then that tree dies.

(01:04:11):
And if you think it's expensive to bring a tree down,
how about bringing a tree down that is hanging all
over your house. Yeah. Yeah, the risks go up. And
they built the house there for that because of that tree,
and now they don't have it. So I just beg
people before you build, have somebody come out. And Martin

(01:04:32):
isn't outstanding somebody to come out and do that kind
of consultation for you. I hope I have, you know,
hammered that home well enough. I was out putting some
of the nectar defender that's a wild bird's product, nectar
defender in my bird hummingbird feeders and have a little

(01:04:53):
bit of sugar water in there for them, and I
just put a little bit by the way. And here's why,
because that stuff doesn't last forever. But nectar defender instead
of it going bad the sugar water in the hot
weather we're having, that goes bad pretty quick. In a
hummingbird feeder, nectar defender extends it out. It's just one
of the products that you can get from wallbirds. This

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is the time when the Baltimore orioles are coming through.
They are making their migration as well as are the hummingbirds.
Get those feeders out. Go to a Wallbirds. Get you
the high perch hummingbird feeder. That's my favorite one high
perch hummingbird feeder. Buy some of their quality blends and
you will see that this stuff really does work. Cheap

(01:05:37):
bird seed full of the low red bebies. You don't
get your money's worth out of it because the birds
are kicking half the stuff or more out of the
feeder looking for something they want to eat. When you
go to Wallbirds and you buy a pound of feed,
you get a pound of stuff going into the birds tummy,
and it just is an economical way to do that.
I'm going to be at Wallbirds at clear Lake by
the way, two day Wildbirds clear Lake and now if

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you don't know where that one is, it's at the
corner of clear Lake City Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard.
I'll be there at eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll
answer your gardening questions. Uh, you can come into a
wad bird store and see what I keep bragging about.
I will also if you bring some samples in in
a bag. If you bring pictures in on your phone,

(01:06:21):
come on out and see a landscape, you're free to
go to call it seven one three two one two
kt r H seven one three two one two kt
r H. I excuse me. I was talking about soil
and the importance of the brown stuff and whatnot. And
azemite is a product designed to put the micros in

(01:06:45):
the soil that you will need for successful plant growth.

Speaker 9 (01:06:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
You know some elements we need in large numbers. Those
are the three on the fertilizer bag. Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,
Those are the ones we need the most of. But
there are other elements that are secondary, like calcium, you know,
like sulfur for example. Then there's micro nutrients that you
just need a tiny trace of. You know how many

(01:07:11):
times has someone said, oh, I need to go get
some manganese fertilizer for the long A plant can't grow
without manganese. Most lungs have it in them. But what's
the level as amite we recommend putting down because it
is something that builds the bank account in the soil.
So as those other nutrients are pushing the plant to grow,
that plant has a bank account of all the micros

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that it needs. And Azamite Texas dot com is the
website for it. If you want to make it easy
for yourself and fall fertilizing season, just do your fertilizing,
come back, add the microlife to your hopper. Don't mix
fertilizer with the microlife. Particle size is different. Uh, and
then do the microlife. You can do microlife microlife. What

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I've been saying, azamite, you can dazimite any time of
the year. You know, I have these these companies in
my heads and it just kind of some times. Asmit
Texas dot com is a website, and just add that
Azmit the micro nutrient, the trace mineral supplement to your lawn. Again,
what are we doing. We're building a micro's bank account,

(01:08:16):
micronutrient bank account in the soil. And that's what azimite does.
By the way, it's available everywhere. You hear me talk
about feed stores, you hear me about garden centers, talking
about ACE hardware stores, talking about I WAS Fertilizer and
all those places. It's easy to find, easy to find. Okay,
We're going to go now to Northwest Houston and talk

(01:08:38):
to Daryl.

Speaker 14 (01:08:38):
Hello Daryl, good morning, Skip. Hey, I had a question
about a weed called surge. How to get rid of
it and not damage Augustine lawn.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Okay, Actually there's a p in there. It's spurge. Uh
and it anybody's wondering if you have spurge, If you
have a little weed, do you think maybe spurge. Just
break off a little you know, branch on it, and
if white milky sap comes out, that's spurge. Spurge receeds
profusely and if you're lunch.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
Well, that's what my wife said.

Speaker 14 (01:09:10):
But I haven't seen I've been digging this stuff. I've
been trying to uh huh do it by hand. I
don't like putting out chemicals. But I haven't seen any
white milky SAPs.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
So this may not be the Taylor period.

Speaker 14 (01:09:23):
Looks when you mow it, it looks pretty good with
the grass. Like you said, you keep them moded.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Okay, Yeah, that's definitely that's definitely not spurge.

Speaker 14 (01:09:31):
Darryl.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
Let's do this. I'm gonna put you on hold and
Chris will give you my email and if you can
take some pictures of it, if you.

Speaker 14 (01:09:41):
Okay, I have your email, I can send some pictures.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Get them to me pretty quick, get up clos right
and see what it is. And then and then you're
certainly welcome to call back.

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
All right, all right, thank you, Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Sir, We're gonna go to Donald now in Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
Hello, Donald, How are you doing this morning? Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
I'm well, thank you?

Speaker 14 (01:10:00):
All right.

Speaker 21 (01:10:01):
I've got some problem with I can't keep the squash
bugs off my squash plants out of What are going
to do?

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Now? Are these the bugs that you see gathered all
around crawling all over the plant? Or are you talking
about the thing that the worm tunnels inside the vine
and makes the worms? Okay, all right, that particular insect
is a squash vine borer, and it's a challenge to control.

(01:10:31):
You're gonna need to spray it, but you don't want
to kill the bees that are pollinating your squash. So
what people usually will do is late in the day
they will spray, but just spray the vines because that's
where the worm enters, near the base. They can enter
further down the vine, but the moth lays egg there.

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The worm hatches out and crawls inside and feeds, and
before you know it, you got big problems. If you start,
if you see that little wet sawdust looking goo that's
coming out of the vine, if you will split the
vine lengthwise with your knife the same direction as the vine,
kind of pull it open, you can take the tip
of your knife and just stab the thing and kill it.

(01:11:13):
And that's kind of an after the fact surgery fix.
But a lot of people do that because no matter
what you spray and try to do, you're gonna miss
a few. But sprays that contains spinosid or BT will
control that product. BT though only lasts about a day,
and so you just have the spray. Spray spray, So

(01:11:33):
I would I would probably go with the spinosid. But
any insecticide you know from seven dust do you name
it will kill those things. But boys things like seven
dusts or they'll kill bees too, and so be really careful.
The reason I say late day is because they're no
blot they're no blooms open. It's the next morning that
the new day's blooms are open, okay.

Speaker 21 (01:11:55):
And then I have this other this other stuff is
I think it's called dove weed or something, Okay, in
my court yard.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
Look looks kind of like Saint Augustine, but a little
more fleshy kind of leaf.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
Yes, yes, sir, okay, it's just taken over.

Speaker 15 (01:12:12):
I don't know how to control it, an't there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
There there's a cinnamon based product called Agrillon that can
be sprinkled on wet dove weed leaves. So you have
to turn on, sprinkle a little bit, get them wet,
and then you sprinkle it on sticks to the leaf
and it turns the black really quick. Now, if you
got a big area of it, it's probably gonna be
a little cost prohibitive and also time prohibitive to go
sprinkling cinnamon dust on these on these particular weeds. So

(01:12:37):
then you would need to switch to a herbicide that's
post emergent. And the product I would recommend for that
weed is called celsius, like the temperature celsius.

Speaker 21 (01:12:50):
Okay, all right, because I kind of did some research
on it and seen that celsius stuff come up.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
So yeah, it's right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
It's not cheap, but it works, okay, all right?

Speaker 21 (01:13:05):
And then one other one other, how do I keep
my wife happy?

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
All year?

Speaker 9 (01:13:09):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
You know, on guard line I give free gardening advice.
I will do marriage counseling. But that is of one
thousand dollars an hour, So do we want to continue
this school?

Speaker 4 (01:13:21):
I'm gonna pass on that one.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Yeah, and I'm gonna stay way the heck away from
that one too, because I don't want to get in
the middle of this. That's funny. Hey, thanks Donald, I
appreciate it.

Speaker 21 (01:13:32):
You've been very help I have a good day.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
You bet, you bet? Bye bye, oh wow. RCW Nurseries
is the garden center that's there where Tambo Parkway comes
into Beltwegh eight and it is an outstanding place. They've
got sales on trees and shrubs and even centrists and
things like that. Right now, it's planting season coming. It's
time to buy some of those products, and r CW

(01:13:57):
grows their own trees. I've been Plantersville, and I tell
you it is the kind of garden center where you
go in you're gonna get expert advice. You're going to
find products too there, like the fertilizers I recommend. But
you're going to find some really nice plants and some
really friendly people too. RCW nurseres it's the garden center
that's where FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes into Beltway.

(01:14:20):
H really really easy to get to you right down there,
go by and check them out because they have some
really cool stuff. Let's see here, boy, Laura, I'm going
to have to go to top of the hour break.
You will be first when I come back. Okay, thanks
for your patients. We look forward to talking to you
right after the break. Well, a while ago, I was

(01:14:44):
talking with Lee down in Fort ben County, and I
was going to mention to him and all of you.
The second annual Strawberry Jamboree by the Extension Service the
Horticulture Department in Brazoria County is going to be at
the Lake Jackson Rec Center on Lake Drive, Lake Jackson, Texas.

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October is Strawberry Planning Season go down September twenty first,
eight a M to TWOPIM learn about this. It's a
pre program. By the way, there'll be a strawberry shortcake
contest as well. They're gonna have exhibitors. You can even
pre order strawberry plugs if you would like. They'll come
in in time to get the planning done. Here's a
phone number nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight.

(01:15:28):
Give them a call. I was there last year and
it was a blast.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
You kzy rh guarden Line with Skimmed Richard.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
It's just watching as.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Welcome back, welcome back. Here we are on garden Line.
We're entering our third hour this morning. I will be
here until ten o'clock and at that time I'm gonna
jump in the car and head out to the clear
Lake wild Birds Unlimited. Clear Lake wild Birds Unlimited. I
hope you'll come out there and see me. It is

(01:16:34):
at the corner if you got your little maps ready,
It's at the corner at clear Lake City Boulevard and
Eldorado Boulevard. We're giving away a lot of stuff and
also answering your gardening questions when you come out. Nelson
Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie, Texas is
a place that you just need to visit. It is magical.

(01:16:57):
I could go out there. In fact, I think they
ought to charge as to just go sit and listen
to the sound of water. It would be like a
therapy session. Uh. And that's what water does for us.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
They have the fish, they've got the plants that you
put in water, and then they've got this big the
thing they invented that big urn that has water coming
out the top, rolling down the sides and recirculating, recirculating fountain.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
They've got those out there, a lot of options. They
can come and do that kind of work for you
at your landscape, or they can tell you how to
do it. You can do it either way. If you're
a big do it yourself, or you can do it yourself.
They are on Katie Fort Ben Road, So if you're
heading out ten from Houston, you just turn to the
left or right, turn to the right north on Katie
Fort Ben Road and they're just a hop, skipping or

(01:17:43):
jump right down the street. Two eight one three nine
one forty seven sixty nine two eight one three nine
one forty seven sixty nine or Nelson Watergardens dot com
Nelsonwatergardens dot com. All right, we're gonna head now out
too if I can find my what's going on here? Okay,

(01:18:05):
well I have a computer mouse that is running wild.
We're gonna here we go. We're gonna go out and
talk to Laura. Hello, Laura, thanks for waiting. Welcome to
garden Line. Good sir, thank you.

Speaker 22 (01:18:23):
Ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Beautiful fine, Hey Laura, I'm sorry I'm sorry to interrupt you.
Your voice is faint and it's cutting in and out.
Uh okay, okay.

Speaker 22 (01:18:42):
About ten years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
Gave me.

Speaker 23 (01:18:47):
Bulbs to a.

Speaker 24 (01:18:50):
Fine that she had brawn, and the bulbs were they
were hard, and they were a little bit bigger than
the ball ball and brown, and I can't moved and
didn't take any with me, And so I've been looking
everywhere for him and I can't seem to find them.

Speaker 22 (01:19:12):
Whuend you happen to know what that might be?

Speaker 15 (01:19:15):
And where am I? Fine?

Speaker 12 (01:19:17):
One?

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
So it's a bulb, only big as a golf ball
or a little bigger, and it grows the vine.

Speaker 22 (01:19:24):
It grows the vine.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Can you describe the leaves on the vine.

Speaker 22 (01:19:29):
They almost look like a regular green ivy leaf, but
they're a little bit darker. They're kind of heart shaped.
And I looked up sweethearts, okay, vines too, but they
don't they don't look the same.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Do they make little bulbs up on the vine in
the tree?

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Okay, that's an air potato, an air potato, yes, And
that's that's what you're looking for.

Speaker 22 (01:20:00):
And I guess we could find those.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
Oh boy, you know, I don't I don't see air
potatoes and gardener centers very often. Uh, in some parts
of the country, they're they're invasive and people don't like
to plan them for that reason. Uh that those potatoes
or the which you're calling the bulb is actually an
air store storage device up on the vine.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
I don't know who who carries those off hand. You
may just have to call around a little bit.

Speaker 6 (01:20:32):
Ah, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Yeah. Sometimes sometimes just you know, community plant sales might
have something like that. Okay, Yeah, and hey, if any
if any garden centers that carry them in are listening,
let me know and I'll say that on the air, Laura,
just keep listening and maybe maybe someone will call in.
All right, thank you for the for the question. All Right,

(01:20:55):
let's see here. I what was I I'm gonna go.
Let me go out to Paul in Missouri City. Next.
Here we go, Paul, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (01:21:06):
Hello Skip. I have two questions. First, one is my
lagustrum plant.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
I got some.

Speaker 15 (01:21:14):
Leaves that are yellowing and some of the leaves have
dark brown spots on them. Now, these these bushes are
like twenty five years old, and I may have fertilized
them once with those fertilizing spikes, maybe ten years ago.
So what can I do to help that plant back?

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Well, I think you are talking about a wax leaf lagostrum,
and that is a fungal disease called sarcospera leaf spot.
It's a fungal leaf spot. They are very prone to it.
Anytime the foliage gets wet, those spots can land, the
spores can land on the leaf, and when they're kept
a little wet, then they sprout and grow. The controls

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for it you're not going to like, but I'll tell
you raking up all the fallen leaves because they have
spores on them, try to reduce that a little bit, uh,
and then spraying them every time it rains right after
it quit training. Uh, then go ahead and get a
funge side on the leaves. And there are a couple
of products. There's one called dak oil and there's one

(01:22:19):
called belaton and those two alternating between those two can
keep that leaf spot in check. But like I said,
nobody wants to have to go out and spray their
shrubs every time it rains.

Speaker 15 (01:22:31):
Okay, now I have the what was the name of
the other.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
One, Belaton B A Y L E T O N.
Well part of Houston.

Speaker 15 (01:22:42):
I'm gonna here in Missouri City and be the.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
West of Yeah, go go southwest Feed and Paralyzer on
the corner of Businestt and Renwick. And I guarantee you
about Scott Ballaton.

Speaker 15 (01:22:55):
Good. Yes, that's my go to place anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
Yeah, good, all right, good look yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:23:01):
The second question is a plant. Suggest I would like
to put a plant in the front of the house.
That would I can control the size of it. I
want to get it to be about four feet tall,
and one that would flower white flowers or cream color flowers.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
A five foot tall plant with wide or cream colored flowers, right.

Speaker 15 (01:23:25):
What would you suggest there?

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Let's see here, Well, boy, that's a I'm have to
think about that one a little bit. Nothing is actually
coming to mind, and it should you know, as all
just have white flowers. They don't get that tall.

Speaker 15 (01:23:41):
The well, you know, I mean like maybe four feet
three four feet.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
There is a plant? Is this fairly shady or real sunny?

Speaker 15 (01:23:52):
It only catches the sun from about three o'clock by
the time the fun rolls over to the front of
the house.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
There's a there's a plant called English dogwood, and don't
think of it like our dog woods that we have here.
It's a very different kind of plant. I don't even
know if they're related, but that would be one that
could do and a part shade, part sun location. And
it's got white flowers bigger than the golf ball, maybe
not tennis ball size, but somewhere in the middle of there.

(01:24:22):
And that would be one that you could find around town.
You're up there or yeah you no, you're down in
Missouri City. Yeah, so I'd try one of the enchanteds
out there in Richmond, Rosenberger, Chenning Forest and China Gardens.
Call them first before you drive all out.

Speaker 15 (01:24:37):
Yeah, very good, very good. All right, thank you, thank
you for this suggestion.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
Yeah. And they're probably going to have ten more things
that aren't just that just aren't coming to my mind
that would fit that bill. Yeah, all right, I got
to run to a break. I'll be right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
Back starting you a morning with the hottest happening.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
In the Tamboil area, especially out west twenty All these
neighborhoods have gone in out there. You probably already know
D and D feed and supply, but they have everything
that you're gonna need when you go in there, like
Skip talked about nitropos, Skip talked about airloom soils, Skip
talked about Microlive for turf Star or Medina. They got

(01:25:13):
all that landscaper's pride products out there. It's just a
place where you go and you get everything you need
to help you have a very beautiful garden and a
bountiful garden as well, and for things like your lawn.
They're set up and they've got the timely products for
the season. At D and D Turf and Feed. They're
about three miles west of two forty nine out twenty

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nine to twenty family owned. It's been opened since nineteen
eighty nine. When the dovers open that up, they've expanded.
Of course, you need any kind of livestock feed or
pet food, very high end lines of dog food for example,
like Origin and Diamond and Victor and Star. Pro D
and D Feed and Supply is the place also where

(01:25:58):
you can get the products you to control pests and
diseases and weeds. They have a very good selection. I
stopped by the other day. I always do that on
our sponsors and just see how they're doing and see
what they're carrying. And I was very surprised at the
amount of stuff for managing problems in the landscaping, garden
and lawn the D and D feed has. I'm gonna

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head out now, let's go to Jersey Village and we're
gonna talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerry, welcome to Guarden Line.

Speaker 23 (01:26:26):
Hi, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
You Bat.

Speaker 19 (01:26:29):
I have a tree.

Speaker 23 (01:26:30):
I rent my house first of all, so my homeowners
don't really do anything with my yard. And I have
a beautiful oak tree right at my house in my driveway.
And I noticed, and I've loved our seven years. I've
noticed the last I guess a year and a half,
the bark down on the trunk of the tree I
guess about five four or five feet up is starting

(01:26:52):
to fall off, and underneath it and it's just about
the size of a hand, a large man's.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
Hand, okay.

Speaker 23 (01:27:00):
And you can see in it it's like an orange,
like a almost like a rest color. And I don't
see any bugs or anything in there, and I just
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 25 (01:27:11):
I don't know if.

Speaker 23 (01:27:11):
It's healthy or if it's dining. How it can help
it because it's so close to the house. I really
I don't want it to fall someday and it's survived
all these winds, I mean, no problems, barely drops.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Yeah. Uh are you seeing that the tree is trying
to callous? That over the like a lava flow coming
in from the sides to close over that that wound?
Has that started outing?

Speaker 23 (01:27:35):
Okay, No, it's just and it's not getting any bigger.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
Yeah, yeah, Carrie, I need to I need to see
it too, because I don't think I'm picturing what you're seeing.
Uh So, can I put you on hold and have
you give get up my email address and send me
some good clear photos up close, maybe one of the
whole tree, but then real close, well focused photos. A

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lot of things can kill the bark on a section
of the tree, and that just naturally happens. And there
are different kinds of fungi that can cause a decomposition
and have different coloring to them. But I'm not going
to guess on this one. Let you take a look
at some pictures and we can take it from there,
and if you email me then I can just email

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you back the information what it is and if anything's
needed what to do.

Speaker 26 (01:28:26):
Okay, Okay, all right, all.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
Right, Chris, they'll be right with you to give you
the email. Fall means that it's time to be thinking
about fall fertilization on our lawns. And if you look
at my schedule at the website Gardening with Skip dot com,
you will see that there's a fall fertilization. And for
the organic products, I bumped them a little bit earlier
to give them a little bit of a headstart because

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they do naturally microbially decompose, releasing some of the nutrients
that are in them. Microlife has a product called Microlife
brown Match five to three fertilizer five to one three.
Remember and fall, we are lowering the nitrogen and we're
raising the potassium the last number on the bag. And
Microlife brown Patch is easy to apply. You like to

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get it down because has a lot of microbes in
it and that's going to be helping you in many
ways in your lawn. You want to get that down
before we hit the brown patch season, and so late
September early early October be a great time to apply
Microlife brown Patch. It's in kind of a brown bag,
makes it really easy. Both the bag and there's also

(01:29:34):
canisters of it if you want the little jars of
plastic jars. You probably need a whole bag though to
treat your lawn, and I think you will find really
good results with it. It's just another one of those
successful and microbe laden products from Microlife that takes a
natural approach to growing your lawn and to controlling issues

(01:29:56):
that you might have in your lawn. Listening to Gardenline,
our phone number is seven to one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I. You know, we talk
about a lot of different kinds of products and things

(01:30:17):
here on garden Line and Heirloom Soils. I just am
always impressed with the breadth of products that they have,
the quality of products that they have. You know, if
you need a rose a blend, if you need a
veggie and herb mix, they got that. You need something
for cacti or for indoor plants, a potting soil, the
works potting soil is what they call it, or outdoor

(01:30:40):
plants and a container the works potting soil is excellent
for that. Compost blends, a shale compost in shale blends
as well. All available from available from Airloom Soils. The
website Airloomsoils Off Texas dot Com Airlomsoilsoftexas dot Com. When
you go there, you can see all the products and

(01:31:00):
you got a really handy calculator. So if you're going
to create a bed this fall, hey falls the time
to plant. I hope you are get a quality Mex.
Remember brown stuff before green stuff. Get a quality Mex
from Heirlooms Soils Off Texas dot Com. They can fix
you up. Their bags are available widespread through the Houston area.

(01:31:20):
They also deliver bulk or you can go and pick
it up yourself at Heirloom Source off Texas dot Com.
That makes it easy. It's a lot easier. In fact,
I was out in the Montgomery area the other day
and I stopped in at A and A Plants and Produce.
I always like to visit with the folks, and as

(01:31:42):
I said earlier today, you know, find out what do
you got? What's in stock and stuff? And I'm telling
you their selection of fertilizers. I nothing that I mentioned
on garden Line is kind of everything I mentioned on Garland.
You're going to find it in A A and A
Plants and Produce. They just had gotten some beauty full
astors in and you know mom season is coming on

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us asters as well. They have the kinds of plants
you would plant in the fall for carrying you into
the cool season. And they got the advice there from
folks that know what they're talking about. Again. Ana plants
and produces on the east side of Montgomery on Highway
one oh five, just on the edge of town there.
It's really easy to get to. If you've driven down

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one oh five, you passed one hundred times. But for
all of you out there, especially those of you up
in the Lake Conroe neighborhoods, they this is your place,
this is your hometown garden center. And they also come
out and do some landscaping work around the Lake Conroe
area too. So just call them, stop in talk to
them about that. We're gonna now go to the woodlands

(01:32:44):
and talk to Tommy. Hello, Tommy, Hello there, how are you.
I'm good good. I was grabbing a pin. Always good
to have a pin when you're talking on guardline.

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
That's it.

Speaker 27 (01:32:57):
Well, thank you for taking my call. Yeah, so, I
don't know if you saw my notes, But the main
question I have, two part question, was Virginia button weed
seems to be all over the lawn and I looked
it up and there's you know, all these different remedies. Yeah,
some of them are pretty pricey, but I know what
your thoughts were on that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
Okay, Virginia button weed is hard to control, and even
the stuff that works, you're probably gonna have to do
it twice. On that stuff. We see it during the
summertime when it's really actively growing. It's around you know
other times, but and during the summertime. The products that
are often recommended for it are just too hard on

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your Saint Augustine lawn and we just use them in
that heat. That's why I'm generally recommending Celsius for Virginia
button weed. Plus in the university trials I've seen Celsius
has led the pack over things like two four D
and other Broadly, if we control products, Okay, it's not cheap.
You can buy it in a little little packet. You know,

(01:33:58):
it's in a I don't know, sugar packet and a
good description, but something like a long sugar packet, and
you got you can treat a lot of weeds with that.
So if you got any other weeds, you can do that.
Sometimes I'll split the packet in half a packet does
a gallon, and a gallon goes a long way, a
long way when you're spot treating weeds in your garden.

(01:34:21):
But that helps break the price down a little bit.
But it works. And just be ready about six weeks
later to hit it again this time of the year.
By six weeks later, it's probably going to be cooling
off quite a bit, so I might be ready in
spring to do a treatment when you first see the
button weed present, and then about six weeks after that.

Speaker 27 (01:34:42):
Okay, great, And is it one of those you put
in a pumper.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Yes, yeah, I would, yeah, in a hose end. That's
just too much volume of water. Okay for targeting on
some weeds like this.

Speaker 4 (01:34:55):
Okay, great.

Speaker 27 (01:34:55):
And the other other part of my question is it
certainly it's not a giant backyard, but it's are real dry,
real dead looking, you know, brown and yellow and mainly
almost brown. Now, okay, you know that those are certain areas,
not the whole lawn, even not over where the button

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weed is, but just kind of in the other areas.
It's odd enough if it was a disease or or
what you know, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
It could be. It could be a lot of things.

Speaker 23 (01:35:24):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
Chinchbugs will kill grass. Take all root rot will kill grass.
That's a disease.

Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Most of the other diseases don't kill the grass. The
summer diseases. We we've got gray leaf spot that we
deal with at certain times, okay, and the brown patch
circles in the fall, large patch and fall in spring.
Mostly those don't kill grass either. So if it's dying,
it's either a drought or disease, or possibly an insect

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called the chinchbug. Chinchbugs their populations are going down, but
they're still around. So okay.

Speaker 27 (01:36:03):
Well, I wouldn't think it would be drought, right because
it's it's been raining fairly often.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Yeah, okay, well, good luck with that. Hey there, I'm
up against a heartbreak here, Tommy. Okay, so I wish well,
thank you, Thank you a lot for the call. We're
about to go to the news, folks. Gene, I'll be
coming to you first up when we come back, and
then we'll get to John and Tomball. All right, folks,
here comes the news. Thanks for oh by the way,

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phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four Well seven one three two one two KT
r H. And we are going to head out to
close to the heights and talk to Gene. Hey, Gene,
welcome to Guardland.

Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
SKIP, good morning.

Speaker 28 (01:36:47):
I had two orange trees, ones of blood orange, ones
of satsuma, and they're throwing off limbs with thorns, and
they're coming from.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Above the graft.

Speaker 28 (01:36:58):
Do I do I cut those tharny limbs off from
the from the from the good wood.

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
You said satsuma. What was the one before Satsuma?

Speaker 28 (01:37:07):
It was a blood orange.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
Yeah, that it shouldn't be happening. Maybe the graph is
higher than it looks on the stem. But prn those
off at the base, right up against where they come
out of the trunk. Prn the thorny down there. Let
let it come up above that.

Speaker 28 (01:37:29):
Okay, I do have limbs with with no thorns, but
again I do.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Have some with Yeah. Yeah, well, there are different ways
that could happen. Number one, the graph could be highed,
and you think number two, when a when a plant
is planted from a seed or something, when it's rooted
or planted from a seed, it's juvenile at the base
for a long long time, even though the top matures.

(01:37:55):
I don't think that's what happened on those, but just
print them off. That's that's the fast answer. All right, good,
thanks sir, Yeah, you bet very good. Yeah that is
very Citrus varies. Some citrus is thorny, some citrus is not.
They just want to make sure you get a good
one that and understand how that should be pruned and

(01:38:18):
groaned and fertilized and everything, because this is a great
place to grow centus. Buchanans Native Plants is on Eleventh
Street and the Heights. Now, they've been around since nineteen
eighty six. They're on eleven Street in the Heights. Here's
a website, so I don't forget Buchanansplants dot com. And
now why is the website so important? Well, it's because

(01:38:40):
there is so much information on there. You can sign
up for the newsletter, which I recommend you do. But
you know, when you talk about Buchanans Native plants, we
think about natives because they've got the best selection in
this whole region of native plants. They do a very
good job of that. But Buchanans is way more than
just native plants. For example, if you're wanting to plant

(01:39:02):
fall color, you know things like mums for example, Uh.
In fact, they have a they have a list of
the things that would be great for fall color on
the on the some of their social media and you
can get to it from the website too.

Speaker 12 (01:39:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
Their Fall Fest is coming up Saturday, October fifth. It's
a little ways ahead, but I just want to tell
you about because this is gonna be one heck of
a shindig going on out there. I'll even be there
after the show on that Saturday. But that's October the fifth, Saturday.
There's going to be costume contests for the kids, and
it's at local vendors, hay rides, pumpkins, food trucks, face painting,

(01:39:37):
live music. You get the idea what I'm talking about.
It's going to be fun. Stop h Buchanans Native Plants
in the Heights Buchanans Plants dot com. You will be
surprised at the breadth of information and the smorgasbord of
really cool plants that do well here in the Greater

(01:39:57):
Houston area. I'm gonna up now to Tom Ball and
talk to John.

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
Hello, John, give everyone to skip. How you doing.

Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
I'm doing well, sir, Thanks for us.

Speaker 4 (01:40:09):
I've got to like everyone else. Weeds weeds, weeds, and
I've got saying Augustine I'm trying to choke out because
I'd rather have my bermuda. And somebody suggested quen chlorac.
Would that be a good option for that and for
crab grass.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
I'm a little hesitant if quen Chlorac products have set
augustine on the label, it might. I just I don't
want to say, you know, if I'm not sure, and
I don't. I don't think it does, but I'm not

(01:40:53):
I'm trying to do it real quick check here. There's
a number of different products out there, but my brain
is wanting to say maybe not. Let me fucking find something.

Speaker 4 (01:41:07):
I've been pulling the runners. That'll take me ten years
to get all this Saint Augustine out.

Speaker 2 (01:41:12):
Yeah, yeah, yep, Saint Augustine. It's the Queen Clark And
that doesn't mean ever product is, but it is. There
are products with Queen Clark. They're pretty good. I wouldn't
use it in the in the heat of summer, but
it's a post emergence, so you could use it now
on the weeks that are growing in your lawn, or
use it in the spring. Kind of Generally we stay

(01:41:33):
away from hot weather with those kind of things. But yep,
there's a number of number of products from a number
of manufacturers that are that carry that.

Speaker 4 (01:41:43):
All right, schip, thank you very much, have a good day.

Speaker 2 (01:41:45):
You bet, thank you. Yeah, I don't kind of threw
me a curve there. It's active ingredient question kind of different. Uh.
There are a lot of products that are labeled for
a lot of things. In fact, let me let me
just do a little soapbox. Read the label. That's the fast,

(01:42:08):
fast answer there. Read the label. The label is the law.
And if you can't see it a plant on the label,
then don't use it on that plant. The label has rates.
If a teaspoon is good, a tablespoon is not better.
A tablespoon will kill your plants or do damage to
your plants, meaning you you know you double or triple

(01:42:30):
up on the amount. Follow the label carefully. It'll tell
you things like what temperature can you use this herbicide in.
It'll tell you things that are very important to help
you have success, like a pre emergent needing to be
watered into the surface of the soil. Read the label.
A lot of problems occur because people won't read the label.

(01:42:54):
And I know that's boring, and I know us guys,
we never stop and ask for directions. Right, Well, read
the label. It is very important that Number one, you
want it to work right, and the label tells you
that you don't want to do damage, and the label
guides you away from that. Always read the I don't
care if it's an organic product or synthetic product. Read

(01:43:16):
the label. That is very important. And I see so
many examples of people that do things that if they'd
read the label, they wouldn't have done it. And typically
it's a lawn that gets nuked with something instead of
having the proper dose done, or they spray twice too
close together. The label would say, no, wait this long

(01:43:37):
before you do it again. Read the label. That's the
bottom line. That's the advice for the day. That is important.
Ace Hardware stores are the kind of place where you
go and you find everything I recommend you need for gardens,
for lawns, for landscapes, for you know, you name it.
Ace Hardware has all of those products. If I talk

(01:43:59):
about a fird, it's going to be at Ace Hardware.
And there's forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area.
Forty so it's easy to find one. Wherever you live,
there's gonna be one pretty close. And if you go
to ACE Hardware dot Com and find the store locator,
you can find the stores near you. But when you're
in Ace, you're going to find the fertilizers and the

(01:44:21):
insect control, disease control, weed control products. You're gonna find tools,
You're gonna find cool stuff for your patio outdoors. I
know it's it's a hardware store. We already know what
hardware stores carry. I'm talking about the lawn and garden
part of it. They have the products at Ace Hardware
and they're so convenient. All right, I'm gonna take a
little quick break here seven one three two one two

(01:44:44):
k t r H. I'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
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complete meltdown with the Michael Berry Show Monday at eight
am and five pm. Stop giving into these dumpy.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
The garden center on two forty nine and Luetta. So
if you're on two forty nine going north toward Tombaugh,
exit Luetta and crossover Luetta, and it's right there on
the right hand side, it's been around for a long time.

Speaker 12 (01:45:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
The Flowery family has been I believe since nineteen seventy three.
That is a long time. They have been part of
the community and they know plants. They know what works here,
they know what doesn't work here. They've answered ten billion
questions from customers and helping customers have success, and that's
why they are so highly recommended by their customers. When

(01:45:37):
you go now, you're going to find some really cool
fall color, really nice like Croton's for example, the ones
that they and of themselves look like harvest season decorated,
some beautiful ornamental grasses that you know, the fall is
the time for ornamental grasses to put on their big show.
They've got that there and just a lot lot more.
If you have questions, if you want to bring a

(01:45:58):
sample of something in, put in the bag, bring it in.
They'll help you for it with it. They will also
if you just have questions or pictures on your phone,
they'll help you with that too. Plants for all seasons,
great plants, and outstanding service for the community. We're going
to head out now to bel Air and talk to Jane. Hey, Jane,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 29 (01:46:19):
Hello, I have some Asian jasmine that is infested with
bermuda grass. Is there anything I can spray on that
to kill the bermuda and save the jasmine?

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
Yes, there are two products. The easiest way for you
to have those products at hand is to go to
my website Gardening with Skip dot com. And there's a
publication I think it's the first one at the top
of the list of my publications. It's called Herbicides for
Skip's weed Wiper. Now you're not gonna treat these with

(01:46:56):
a weed wiper, but if you go down the list,
it says for grass see weeds what to use, and
I'll tell you the names of the ingredients, but just
know that at the website, if you forget, you can
just print that out and take it to wherever your shopping.
One of them is Setosiedim and it's if you look

(01:47:17):
at the first letters or S E T H the
boy's name. Okay. The other one is flu as a
flop and just remember flu a Z flu as. But
go to the website and you'll see those there. I
have a list of things that control woody plants, things
that control sedges, things that control grasses, things that control

(01:47:39):
underground bulbs like wild onions or wild garlic that comes
up in your lawn and it makes it real easy.

Speaker 29 (01:47:45):
Wow, that's great. Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate it,
all right, Jane.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
Thank you. I appreciate that. You know, I run into
people all the time that haven't been to the website,
and I just would really urge you to go bookmark
it because I'm always putting new stuff up there, and
some of these questions where it's like involved to try
to answer or spell things out on the air and stuff,

(01:48:11):
you can just go to the I'm going to be
sending you. Go to the website. Go to the website
because I take time to put it there and where
I can give a better answer than I do in
a very short phone call answer. So that is my
request if you will do that. I know you want
to have success with a fall garden and with beautiful

(01:48:32):
flower beds and with a lawn that just looks good.
And the thing you need to remember on success with
any of these plants is you want them to be
in the amount of sunlight they want, You want them
to be maintained and the way that they like, and
you want them to be in a quality soil. Fact,
that's first quality soil. If you've never grown a vegetable garden,

(01:48:55):
why not do one this year? Why not do it?
I mean, vegetable gardens are They are a blast And
think can you think of a better way to eat
than out of stuff you grew yourself? What is fifteen
fifteen hundred miles closer than where the grocery store stuff
came from? September late September is when we're planting things

(01:49:18):
like the blue leaf vegetables, the col crops super super
high on nutrition, cancer fighting characteristics as well, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower,
co robbie collars, kale, all that. This is prime time.
Get that done now. It's important. Maybe a bulb type

(01:49:39):
or a swollen root type crop like beets, they can
go in now, Turnips can go in now, Radishes can
begin to go in as well. Those are all good
for the cool season. When we cool off a little bit,
we'll bump it a little bit later into the season
and start planning spinach. When thing's kind of cool off,
spinach picky about the heat. Lettuce can go in at

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that time. Have you ever grown a regular rugula? Also
called rocket or roquat rocket. I believe arugula is a
wonderful little green that you use sparingly in a salad
for just adding a zip to the salad, and you know,
we slather our salad, the typical American salad. What is it?

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It's iceberg, lettuce, some tomatoes that grew way far away
and had to be hard enough to be shipped, and
maybe some cut up cucumbers on it. Why not mix
a lot of different greens in a salad growing yourself.
You have flavors just from the green. Sorrel can be
planted now. It loves cool weather, and sorrel gives a

(01:50:45):
lemoni taste to your salads. The rugular by the way,
it's kind of a nutty and as it gets a
little older, it's kind of hot, little peppery flavor as well.
You can grow something called corn salad. I don't know
why they named it that. It's just a green that
grows in cool seat. And you can grow plantain greens
in the cool season. There's just a lot of wonderful

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greens that you can grow and make your salads just
really sing with stuff you grew yourself. And if you
don't want to make a big garden in the backyard.
Maybe you don't have room, or maybe you just don't
want to plow up that much of the lawn to
make this big garden. You can garden and raise beds.
You can get you one of the metal raised beds

(01:51:27):
like a veggo bed. Set it on concrete if you want,
and you can grow stuff in it. It does really
well if you want to use containers. Pretty much every
vegetable can be grown in a container. Some it takes
a larger container, but in the cool season. Oh, I
grew carrots last year in a container. I'd never grown

(01:51:48):
carrots in a container before, and I did last year
and they did well. It was a very kind of
a taller container. It happened to be kind of thin,
but carrots grew well in it. In a good mix.
Grow onion as the green onions, the chives as well.
That great for flavoring. I like chop up chives and

(01:52:10):
scrambled eggs. I think that's a great way to use chives,
and also soups and things. Why not grow some stuff
if you've never been a vegetable gardener before, and if
you don't want to go all in in this big
vegetable garden. Try containers or just try raise bed. You
can put some herbs in it. We have some rosemary
and a raised bed that's kind of cascading over the

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side of a raised bed, and the summer flowers that
have been in there for a long time are about
to be it all pulled out, and that thing is
going to be a major salad and soup garden if
you will for the cool season. It's fun and I
don't know, there's something rewarding about growing those things yourself.
You know you did it yourself. And if you got kids,

(01:52:54):
get them involved. Get kids involved in gardening. You know,
we are more likely to eat things grow and kids
that might turn their nose up at something, if they
grit theirself, there's a better chance they're probably going to
want to eat it and try it out, or they
will enjoy giving the certain if you produce a lot
of something, they'll enjoy give it away to friends and

(01:53:14):
family and neighbors and whatnot. But get kids involved in gardening.
They need to get their hands dirty. It will lead
to a healthier life. Our number one here I'm on
a soapbox again. Our number one health problem in this
country is because of stuff that goes in our mouth,
the way we eat fast food and a lot of
other processed types of things. When you grow your own garden,

(01:53:39):
you can turn that around. High fiber and up right
now I'm picking my okra. Still hope it holds on
for a long time because okra has soluble fiber and
it's got the insoluble fiber. Two different ways that okra
helps us. But that's just one example. Have a cool
season garden. Let's do that. You go to a garden center.
They'll get your pot if you need one, They'll get

(01:54:00):
you the soil. They're going to carry the soils that
you need to put in a pot, and they're going
to have the seeds if you want to plant those,
or the transplants if you want to do that. Just
get out and have fun. You know, gardening is not
rocket science. And if you think you have a brown thumb,
you don't. You have an uninformed thumb. Keep listening to
garden Line and we will help inform your thumb and

(01:54:22):
suddenly you'll find just how easy gardening can be a
lot of fun in the process. I want to remind
you that today after this show, is over. I'm going
to head to the clear Lake Wallbirds Unlimited, Clearelake Wallbirds
Unlimited the corner of El Dorado and clear Lake City.

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So for all of you down in that direction south
and to the east, little bit friends would in Pairland
now saw By sebor Keenan Bakecliffe League City, all of that,
Deer Park, Laporte. Come on out to the Wallbirds Unlimited
in Claire Light. I'll be given away a lot of
good stuff. They're They're throwing in some Nectro defender, a

(01:55:03):
variety of seed blends and some other things. I'm going
to be bringing away some products, bringing some products myself
to give away. And I'm mainly there to answer your
gardening questions and to meet you. Put a face behind
the voice on the radio. Well, come on out to
clare Lake the wa Bird's Unlimited. Bring a bring some
plants in a bag for I D bring some photos

(01:55:25):
on your phone for questions. Come on out eleven thirty
to one thirty elder Ola Boulevard in Houston.

Speaker 1 (01:55:34):
Not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to kat r H Guarded Line
with Scared Richard.

Speaker 3 (01:55:43):
It's trim just watch him as so many backs.

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
They're not a sad Welcome back to Guarden Line, folks,
welcome back. We're glad to have you with us today.

Speaker 4 (01:56:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
Before I went to break there, I was talking about
being at the Wall Birds Unlimited out in clear Lake. Uh, Clearlake.
It's I mentioned that's on the corner of El Dorado
and clear Lake City Boulevard. That I think the address
they go by is a Clearlake City address, But I'll
tell you another way. You can find it. When you're
at that intersection. There's a big ol'a g B and
it's right across the street from that, right across El

(01:56:39):
Dorado from the big old at. It's easy to find.
So come on out and let's talk about the things
that are of interest to you.

Speaker 4 (01:56:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
Nitrofoss has a really cool thing for fall, and it's
called the Texas three Step. Three steps, Three things you
need to be doing in the fall. One of them
is their Nitrofoss Fall Special Winter Riser. That is a
product that has a different ratio of nutrients than we've
been fertilizing through the ear. Fall fertilization is different. We
want more potassium because potassium gives winter heartiness and it

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also helps the lawn to go into winter strong and
to come out strong. Just hear this. Your spring lawn
new growth is based on the fertilization that it got
last fall. How strong did it go into winter? How
strong is it going to come out of winter. We
do spring fertilizing and summer fertilizing and whatnot, but fall

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fertilization is very important for that. And Nitropus fall special
winterizer is that step two nitropous barricade to stop weeds
from ever getting a start all the cool season. Weeds
that in the spring are growing big and blooming and
everything they're controlled are prevented best prevented in the fall
with barricade. If you wait until they're big and growing

(01:57:54):
in blooming, you're going to have trouble controlling them. So
why not just prevent them with a fall application of barricade.
And then the finally nitrofoss eagle turffund deicide. It's a
systemic fund, decide. It moves into the plant's tissues and
it protects against large patch of brown patch, the big
circles everybody talks about. And it also has a pretty
good effect on take all root rot and if you

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look at my schedule all that stuff I talk about
when to do it and when to do it for
the take all root rot and the and the patch disease,
we're talking about October. That's the prime time to get
that done. And you can get it all done with
Nitrofoss's three step. You go to Cyprosaces Hardware, You're going
to find it. You go to Plantation Hardware down there
in Rosenberg, Richmond Rosenberger, You're going to find it down

(01:58:40):
there as well. Nitropos three step all three makes it easy.
One two three, go home with three bags. You are
listening to Gardenline our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four as easy as that.

(01:59:00):
If you have some questions about how to successfully garden,
how does successfully grow vegetables, I'd start by asking your
garden centers, the places where you buy stuff, They're going
to be able to tell you how to do it.
You can certainly call garden Line ask a question here
if you want, But your Egglife Extension office is also
a good source of information on things like that. You

(01:59:22):
got county agents in every county and this whole listening area,
and in a number of the counties you got a
horticulturist Montgomery County, Harris County out there in Orange, down
in Brazoria and Fort Bend and Galveston Counties. What did
I say, Montgomery. I don't think I left anybody out.
They have horticulture agents that can help you. There's also

(01:59:42):
a website called Aggie Horticulture. Aggi Horticulture is a wonderful website.
When you go to it, it's aggihyphen Horticulture dot TAMU
dot edu. Forget all that, Just type in AGGI horticulture
into a search and you'll find it. On the front page.
There is gardening information, I mean a button for vegetable gardening,

(02:00:05):
and there is a publication on everything you could possibly
want to grow, from a regular to zucchini. It is
all there on the Aggihorticulture website. There's a section on
fruit too, that is the same thing. Free publications, easy
to find talks about how to grow all those things.
Why not take advantage of that free information. We're going
to go to Lake Conroe now and talk to Joanne. Hello, Joanne,

(02:00:29):
Welcome to Guarden line.

Speaker 30 (02:00:30):
Thank you say, I have a I believe it's a
colist that I rescued from one of the box stores,
and it's in a pot and it's been doing okay,
but I'm noticing that the stocks are getting woody, and
at the tips of some it's really really dark, and

(02:00:53):
I could just break it right off with my fingers
at the tip some of the leads are a little
bit on the browning side.

Speaker 2 (02:01:06):
Well, I think a picture would be more helpful here.
There are there are some blights that could affects. They're
not real common in Colius in general. We don't just
see them everywhere.

Speaker 30 (02:01:19):
But I put some seven on it, and then I
did bring a piece over to aa uh there in
Montgomery and they said possibly a fertilizer. So other than that,
I don't know what else to do.

Speaker 2 (02:01:31):
Yeah, well, I would do that if you. If you
want to send me a picture to look out to
see if I'm seeing anything, send me one of the
whole planet and then a couple up as close as
you can get. But before you send them, make sure
they're well focused. I'll be glad to look at it.
You know, Colius is going to be heading out when
it gets cold, but it sure puts on a beautiful
fall show. So now's a good time to put Yeah.

Speaker 30 (02:01:51):
They're nice, and I have little frigs coming out little
that I kip off because of the little lavender peaks.

Speaker 2 (02:01:59):
Yeah, okay, well and if you have if you yeah,
just hang on. I'm gonna put you on holding, Chris.
We'll give you the email. Let me take a look
at those pictures before I go recommending something that I
haven't even seen the plant. All right, thank you, appreciate
that joint. You are listening to garden Line. Our phone
number is seven to one three two one two five

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ty Strictly, I like being able to recommend compuestion.

Speaker 31 (02:04:18):
I've been working on here for a transplant. A tree
that's kind of growed from from nothing into about oh
it's probably about five foot tall now, maybe six, and
it's got about.

Speaker 32 (02:04:31):
An inch inch and a half uh stem coming up,
and it's right next to the house, and I just say, man,
I just don't want this thing to grow too much
further before I take it out. But I want to
keep the tree.

Speaker 31 (02:04:48):
I want to either put it in the pot and
transplant it later, or just transplant it someplace else in.

Speaker 4 (02:04:56):
The yard to where I don't have to worry about.

Speaker 31 (02:04:58):
It ruining it when I to make sure it doesn't
know it'll destroy it.

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
Yeah, well, first of all, let it cool off, let
it drop some leaves. Get into November sometime would be
a good time to move it. The least stress time
of the year is winter on a tree, late late fall,
winter early early spring, and so you'll get moved early
in that time. You want to cut out as wide

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out as you can get. Probably if you could get
you know, eighteen inches out on both sides all around
a tree. What I do is, I like cut out
a little trench around the tree, and if you can
get it down on a tree like that, if you
could get it down to about boy maybe eight inches

(02:05:44):
down below the surface, and then I have a flat
shovel that I cut underneath with and then lean it
one way with that soil and then slide a tarp
under it. Then you cut the other side and you
can slide it onto the tarp. See we're trying to
avoid picking up that soil. That soil is heavy, and
if you pick it up, your chiropractor's kids will have

(02:06:05):
the plenty of money to go to college. Uh yeah,
we don't want to. And so so you get it
like that, and then on the tarp you can slide it.
One guy could could slide a lot a lot of
weight across, but get a couple. If you want to
have people pick up the four corners of a tarp
and carry it, you can do that. But get it
to it's a new place. Do you already have a

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spot where you know you want to plant it?

Speaker 31 (02:06:28):
Well, I'm fixed to probably sell this place and I
want to take that tree with me. So it would
it be better if I put it in.

Speaker 2 (02:06:36):
At yes, like a bigger pot. Yes, that changes what
I just said I would. I would pull it up.
You're not going to make as big of a circle
cutting out because it's got to fit in a pot.
Get it in and get some quality mix down in
the pot. Some the soil can fall off the roots,
that's fine. Put the quality mix around them too. Get

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it in the pot, Water it and keep it in
a shady location for a while, just to minimize the
transplant shock. If it doesn't have any leaves on it,
it's not going to use much water. Butt you still
need to water because those roots will grow all winter
to some degree. And so don't let it dry out. Uh.

(02:07:17):
And and then you can take it with you wherever
you want to go.

Speaker 31 (02:07:22):
All right, Well that sounds good.

Speaker 2 (02:07:23):
That sounds good.

Speaker 31 (02:07:24):
One of the questions, uh of Saint august or sorry
I got Saint Augustine? I got these, uh Virginia button weeds.

Speaker 9 (02:07:33):
Just I try to.

Speaker 31 (02:07:35):
Pick them by hand, and I stay ahead of it.
But this year I wasn't able to do to some
fiscal health problems.

Speaker 2 (02:07:41):
Yes, and now they're.

Speaker 31 (02:07:42):
Starting to really they're they're really spreading. Yeah, when's the
best time to treat it and what should have.

Speaker 4 (02:07:48):
Treat it with?

Speaker 2 (02:07:49):
Okay, Virginia button weed during the growing season, you can
it has the foliage out there. You can get a
spray on it. Uh and and it works. I would
use a product called Celsius, like the temperature Celsius, but
do it and you could do it now, hit it now.
It's not that weed is hard to kill. And even
with Celsius, you can spray it in the spring and

(02:08:11):
then about probably six weeks later read the label. I
think it's about six weeks later you spray it again
to make sure you got it. But Celsius allows you
to spray it in a little bit warmer temperature than
most of the other products, and it also works well.
Remember Virginia button weed likes wet conditions, so anything you

(02:08:32):
can do to let that soil dry out considerably between
waterings will help by not causing it to proliferate so
much like it will in wet soil. All right, there
we go, Thank you very much for that question. We're
going to go to Cheryl in Montgomery.

Speaker 17 (02:08:51):
Hello, Cheryl, good morning.

Speaker 11 (02:08:54):
I have four flower beds that are planted exactly the same.
But the issue is to them have what I guess
some of my neighbors say is nutshage grass. Yes, and
it's so thick with it. I've been told pull it,
don't pull it, treat it. And then I've also been
told to dig it all out and put in new

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soil because the soil could have brought it in.

Speaker 6 (02:09:17):
I don't know what to believe.

Speaker 2 (02:09:18):
Well, if you dig it out, you're gonna have to
dig it out a foot deeper, and you may still
have a nut or two down below that. But I
would I have put together some publications just for this.
If you go to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com,
you'll see there's tips for winning the War on nuts Edge.

(02:09:38):
That's kind of the real fast, quick, easy one pager,
and then there's going nuts over Nutsedge, and that is
the three pager, and it explains the different kinds of
nuts edge and how we go about controlling it. And
here's the deal. If I were to summarize it, this
isn't enough information. Go to the publication for that. But
if I were to summarize it, I would say jump

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on it early in the spring and never let it up.
For air when you spray and it goes down and
here comes some more. When it has three to five leaves,
you gotta spray it again. And the products for that
are on this publication. Sedgehammer is one example. But what
people do is they wait to start controlling it and

(02:10:23):
it proliferates during that weight, or they control it for
a while and then they stop and it proliferates during
that stopped time. So you got to stay on it,
never let it up for air. When it has three
to five leaves, it needs to be getting sprayed. And
if you stay with that starting in spring, I would
spray it now. I sprayed some in my yard just

(02:10:44):
the other day. I would spray it now, but especially
in the spring when you first see the nutsedge coming
up and it's got three to five leaves, start in
on it at that time.

Speaker 4 (02:10:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:10:56):
So one more question regarding that, what can I do
immediately because I'm getting letters from the HOA.

Speaker 2 (02:11:09):
Well, I mean, you could spray something that just basically
burns the top off, but that's not going to accomplish much.
I would appeal to the HOA that you got a
product on a sedge hammer. These products that I'm recommending
in this sheet. They take a while. It may be
two weeks and you're going, oh, that didn't do anything. Oh,
yes it did. It's working its way, and that plant

(02:11:31):
will go downhill. I had some I sprayed ten days ago,
and I'm barely seeing the first signs of the product.
But i know it's the one that's going down there working.
Other stuff doesn't get down there and kill the nut.
And that's why people spray and say it doesn't work.

Speaker 6 (02:11:48):
Gotcha, very good, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:11:52):
Yes, you bet appreciate your call. Thank you. Yeah, that
is the way it is. Let's go out to Conroe
now and we're going to talk to Marie. Hello Marie,
welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 15 (02:12:07):
Hello Skip.

Speaker 33 (02:12:08):
I have a question regarding a Wex myrtle tree. I
have an area that or a raised bed that's about
four and a half feet wide by nine feet long.
I've got a dead rose of Sharon there and I'm
trying to decide if by shooting instead planta Wex myrtle
tree that will give me semi privacy.

Speaker 15 (02:12:27):
Uh, it is okay.

Speaker 33 (02:12:28):
And that bed is layered with turks caps and laurel
plums and elo cassius. But again, the width is four
and a half feet white. Will that be okay for
a wax myrtle tree or not?

Speaker 2 (02:12:42):
So when you say tree, you're you're talking about a
single trunk coming up with a top on it plan.

Speaker 33 (02:12:49):
Will I I have no experience with a wex myrtle tree,
because I've read that I could go that route or
simply limit up with multi.

Speaker 2 (02:13:00):
Yeah, yes, you could do it either way. I wouldn't
do a single I would do multi. Cut off things
that are not what you want. They're not part of
those three trunks or usually people do about three uh,
and then trim it up and it gets higher. If
it gets higher, could it be a little wider than
four feet?

Speaker 14 (02:13:19):
Uh?

Speaker 33 (02:13:20):
Yes, it's uh.

Speaker 2 (02:13:21):
The area is four and a half feet.

Speaker 33 (02:13:22):
But then I've got some roses, some double knockout roses
on one side and the crushed limestone gravel pamp on
the other side, so it's really four and a half
feet wide.

Speaker 2 (02:13:34):
Well, I tell you that's you can keep a wax
myrtle that narrow, but you're gonna be printing it a lot.
And so I'm kind of wondering if you really even
want a tree there with that small of a four
and a half feet. There's not gonna be anything that
you know is.

Speaker 33 (02:13:51):
So I might seem like I should stick with the
rows of sharing in that area.

Speaker 2 (02:13:55):
Then well, rows of sharon get bigger than four and
a half feet too. Uh, either way, you can do either.
You've said something about blocking a view, right, Well.

Speaker 33 (02:14:06):
Seem like privacy. And of course the roads up sure,
and you know they get us down during the winter time.

Speaker 2 (02:14:11):
So yes, it's deciduous. Yeah, well, you can give the
give this a try. Just know that you're going to
be stay busy keeping it into the shape and size
you want. But you can do that. It's possible.

Speaker 33 (02:14:24):
Any idea, any idea how many times a year I
have to be pruning?

Speaker 4 (02:14:27):
It?

Speaker 2 (02:14:28):
Would this be like monthly or pro probably quarterly? Oh okay,
you know you could do it probably quarterly, and that
that would be fine, wonderful. All right, Marie, you bet,
thank you for the for the call. Uh, we're gonna
go now, let's see Dan and Eagle Lake. I'm about
a minute before the news, but let's get started on

(02:14:49):
your call and we can continue after the break.

Speaker 25 (02:14:54):
Okay, good morning, good morning, morning to good morning to all.
Just a fast question, I think you can just we
can do this spacing between the rows and spacing between
red la soda.

Speaker 2 (02:15:10):
Specifically, I'll put mine about eight inches apart. They could
be a foot apart if you wanted, but most of
the potatoes are going to set within about six to
eight inches of the base of that plant, so about
that far. As far as the road distance, give them
a little more space, but not you don't need a
lot more, maybe a foot foot and a half. I

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usually have about twelve to eighteen inches between roads. There.
We're going to start off by going straight out to
Jersey Village and talking to Chris. Hello, Chris, welcome to
guard Mine.

Speaker 13 (02:15:43):
All right, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (02:15:45):
You bet.

Speaker 34 (02:15:48):
I've got in my front flower bed. Actually it's just
one this little thorny thing, and I mean those thorns
are fears.

Speaker 15 (02:16:00):
I've worn.

Speaker 34 (02:16:02):
Leather construction job construction gloves to pull the things up,
and they go right through the gloves. And it's got
a wooden root and I don't know what it is.
But what I would like is that you had something
that I could spray on it or put on it

(02:16:24):
that would kill it and not affect the other.

Speaker 15 (02:16:29):
Surrounding.

Speaker 2 (02:16:30):
Okay, vegetation yeah, well there, you'll have to go about
it a certain way. I really would like to know
what it is based on that description, I'm not real sure.
Can you describe the leaves real quick for me?

Speaker 34 (02:16:46):
Yeah, they're kind of like they look like when it
leaves out, it looks like a fan, you know, waving
like a waving fan. And uh, it doesn't get very big,
but I mean it's going all over that one flower bed. Okay,

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and you know I really want to, you know, kill it.

Speaker 2 (02:17:09):
All right, well, let me let's do this. Boh, if
you will, I'm sorry, Chris, If you will, hold on,
I'm going to put you on hold and have my
producer give you an email. Send me some close up
pictures and sharp focus of this plant's leaves if it
had flowers, show those. But let me see some pictures

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and let me make sure I know what we're talking about,
and I'll reply with what to do for it.

Speaker 13 (02:17:34):
Okay, Okay, appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (02:17:37):
You bet you bet glad glad to help them do that.
You know I could always guess, but I'm telling you
it's better if I don't, because sometimes things aren't what
they seem. You've heard me talking about Jorges Hidden Gardens
done in Alvin before Ray just keeps it, just keeps growing,
getting better down there. I tell you he's got a
lot of wonderful trees, and fall is for planting. He

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has a great selection out, a bunch of new roses
that have come in if you like, if you like
fruiting plants. He has three different kinds of thornless blackberries.
Maybe more, but I know I know of three that
all do well here, and fall is a good time
to plan them. They're ready to go, waiting for you
to come get them.

Speaker 35 (02:18:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:18:18):
Orges Hidden Gardens is on Elizabeth Road in Alvin, Texas.
So all of you way downs out there, this is
your hometown garden center, Elizabeth Road in Alvin, Texas, Jorges
Hidden Gardens. You need to go by and check them out.
He one thing that he also has I wanted to
mention is citrus. There's a good selection of cetrus as

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well down in his gardens, or it is his nursery
there in town. All right, folks, we're going to go
back out now. Let's see, we're going to go to
Bow in Houston.

Speaker 17 (02:18:51):
Hello bo, Hey, good morning morning, Hey, quick question, hopefully
me and a couple of family's been trying to grow
this night blooming serious plant for a couple.

Speaker 26 (02:19:02):
Of years and we haven't had been able to get
the flower. My grandmother had one that would flower before
the freeze, and this new one just doesn't. We don't
know what to do. You have any suggestions for.

Speaker 2 (02:19:12):
Me, Well, getting it in the right amount of light,
not over fertilizing it. That that would be important to
not over fertilize night blooming jasmine. Making sure the soul
drains really well is important for that. Let's see what else, Yeah,
not overfertilizing. That's pretty much it. It needs a lot

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of sunlight though, in order to do its best. So
maybe maybe in.

Speaker 26 (02:19:42):
Partial sunlight at the moment it would blanch.

Speaker 2 (02:19:44):
In full sunlight, yeah, well it may maybe it's getting enough.
Is this the shrub night blooming a jasmine or are
you talking about a vine? Okay, all right, yeah, well
those would be the things providing a fertilizer for blooming
plants going to have more of the middle number the
phosphorus in it, that would be another thing that would

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be helpful for it. That's what comes to mind initially.

Speaker 17 (02:20:12):
All right, So fertilizer with posterous got it.

Speaker 2 (02:20:15):
Higher phosphorus levels. Yeah, so something for plumerias would probably
be a good I would try that and see how
that works for them. Moderate amount of fertilizer, a decent
amount of light, but not overwatering, not keeping the roots
too wet. Those are all things that come to mind initially.

Speaker 17 (02:20:36):
All right, well, appreciate it, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:20:38):
All right, you bet, thank you for the call. Appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (02:20:40):
Bough.

Speaker 2 (02:20:41):
Now we're going to go to Marty in Fairfield. Hey, Marty,
welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 15 (02:20:46):
Good morning, Skip.

Speaker 16 (02:20:48):
Hey.

Speaker 23 (02:20:48):
I just wanted to let you know that I got
frustrated with the net grass and the Virginia button weeds,
so I got out the Ultra.

Speaker 15 (02:20:57):
We'd beat her ultra.

Speaker 36 (02:20:59):
A watering can with about a tablespoon of the weed beater,
and a week and a half later, there.

Speaker 19 (02:21:09):
I've got spots all dying.

Speaker 36 (02:21:10):
Okay, So I'm going to reapply it. And I didn't
know though it said that it was okay to put
it on the grassy area with my Saint August team.

Speaker 15 (02:21:23):
Without killing it.

Speaker 2 (02:21:24):
Is that it is labeled for use on that at
the right if you don't have it too concentrated, then
that would be yeah, that would be it. The weed beater.
Weed Beater Ultra has got a mix of different ingredients.
It's got like four I think four different got dicamba

(02:21:46):
and macroprop and it's got carpenter zone and MCPA all
in it.

Speaker 12 (02:21:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:21:50):
And that covers a lot of different kinds of weeds.
But I'll tell you this, I don't think you're going
to find nutsedge on the label. You might, I don't
think it's on there. Uh. And I think you may
see the nutsedge pop back up, but just have to
watch and wait. Hopefully you have had success. But I'm
I'm a little leary about calling it on this one.

Speaker 15 (02:22:15):
That's fine.

Speaker 36 (02:22:15):
I just I'm just hard.

Speaker 2 (02:22:18):
Looking at it. Oh, I know, I know, well, God and.

Speaker 36 (02:22:22):
Buttons, I'm having success with it, So I'm okay.

Speaker 15 (02:22:25):
Yeah, I'm happy.

Speaker 2 (02:22:27):
Okay, Well good, well yeah, yeah, sure, I appreciate knowing that.

Speaker 4 (02:22:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:22:33):
Go online if you have them already and read my
what I wrote up on nuts edge, and I think, Okay,
just understanding how it works and why some of the
things we typically do wrong can happen, that's that's important. Well,
thanks for the call, Marty. Appreciate your wearing in on
this one. All right, you take care. We're going to
go now to Sam. Uh No, We're not Sam. When

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we come back from break, you will be the first up.
Uh And and Marine and Evelyn, we see you out
there and we'll be getting to you as well. His
welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Well we lost Sam,
all right, let's uh who's next? Marene in Lakeside of States. Hello, Marine,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 19 (02:23:16):
Thank you. I didn't know it was so close to
saying goodbye to you. I've been listening happily to all
your suggestions. Okay, I do have two Chris anthemums that
are actually in the ground and have been there a
whole year, so whatever I am doing is going okay,
the partial shape and son. So that's what I just

(02:23:39):
want to check up because i'd like to buy another
four for this year. So I'd like to know.

Speaker 1 (02:23:46):
What is it?

Speaker 19 (02:23:46):
Okay, used Microlife six two four? Or do I need
to do something else for Chris Anthemum.

Speaker 2 (02:23:52):
No, that's fine, you can use that. That works very
very well. I would probably when you plant them, I
would get a hold of some of their other products.
The liquid products that you can use and they work.
They work super well, you know with drenching the plants
when you put them in the ground, that will provide

(02:24:15):
provide help with them trying to get roots in the ground. Basically. Yeah,
and just chrysanthemums, know this. There's some we call those
florist chryscentthemums. A lot of what you see like in
the grocery store and all kinds of places. Those usually
will return, but they may not be as dependable as
something There are some other chrysanthemums you probably wouldn't care

(02:24:37):
for a country girl, but it sprawls all over the place.
But it is a very dependable perennial chryscanthemum. But again
it's a floppy, sprawling thing. But planning them right, getting
them in a good quality so with lots of organic matter,
and then keeping them moderately moist. If you can water
the soil instead of watering the root the foliage, that's

(02:24:59):
better when you get water, especially these that have been
pruned and snipped to be like a little mound, you
know when you buy them at the garden. Yeah, they're
real tight. Yeah, they're all tighten there. And if you're
spraying water in the top. You can get some rot
going on down in there. You're promoting a rot, so
water the soil rather than the plant.

Speaker 16 (02:25:21):
Gotcha? All right?

Speaker 19 (02:25:23):
So what about in the middle of the year, after
they've done, they're spent, so maybe January, I'm not really sure.

Speaker 2 (02:25:31):
You want to kind of shoot, yeah, you want to
show them back. We call it pinching because you know,
people just have one and they can just pinch off
the soft ends of the shoots. But as you do that,
it increases density, and the more you do it, the
dentsure they get. They would probably perform a little better
if they weren't quite as tight as they are when
you buy them usually, but if they get lanky, then

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branches are going to start breaking off because they're very brittle.
So you decide, but you print them two or three times,
stop pinching. Let's see, stop pinching by probably July. I
think I would say they need time to grow after
the pinch because it'll cause new sprouts to grow, and

(02:26:13):
then those sprouts need to set a bloom bud so
that it can do its fall bloom.

Speaker 19 (02:26:19):
That's what I must like.

Speaker 15 (02:26:20):
It just been dumb luck, you know.

Speaker 19 (02:26:23):
Well, because that's exactly what happened.

Speaker 15 (02:26:25):
I did.

Speaker 19 (02:26:25):
I pruned a little bit here and a little bit there,
and I don't want to take somebody else's time, but
I'm so thrilled that they responded.

Speaker 15 (02:26:33):
But the most important.

Speaker 19 (02:26:34):
Thing was now for me to get the liquid.

Speaker 15 (02:26:37):
Is there a number on the.

Speaker 19 (02:26:38):
Liquid in terms of the six two for war? Yeah,
I know you said liquid drenching.

Speaker 2 (02:26:43):
Right, Well, well, micro Life they have a number of
different liquids. There's a seven one four that's that is
called biomatrix. It would be fine for plants that are growing.
You could use it in transplanting, but I would, you know,
I would. You could do fish emulsion and seaweed. That's
another thing I have that it works very very well.

(02:27:08):
Let's see here. What is the other? Oh gosh, the
name is escaping me. The one I'm trying to think of.
Just one second and I'll tell you. Oh, it's a
Microlife maximum blooms. That is a three three eight three,
And that would be one to be using as the
plant is growing, but not necessarily putting a brand new

(02:27:31):
one in the ground, but you could use it to
put a new one in the ground also. It would
work very well for that Microlife maximum Blooms. Microlife has
one other it's called soil and Plant Energy that I
think would be a good one to use at transplanting.
It's going to give you a rocket boost.

Speaker 19 (02:27:48):
Okay, soy and plant What was the last.

Speaker 2 (02:27:51):
Word, soil and plant energy.

Speaker 19 (02:27:54):
Yeah, energy, Okay, I think you've covered it.

Speaker 2 (02:27:57):
Yeah, but you also just make sure you have some
of those others on hand during the growing season because
you're gonna want to use them.

Speaker 19 (02:28:04):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:28:05):
I appreciate it all met Thanks a lot. We're gonna
go out to Katie and talk to Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn,
Welcome to Gardlande.

Speaker 35 (02:28:12):
Good morning, Good morning Skip.

Speaker 17 (02:28:14):
I have a question.

Speaker 35 (02:28:15):
Is it too late to plant I mean to saw
Saint Augustine grass.

Speaker 2 (02:28:20):
It is not too late. You can do that, but
it's better to get it done sooner rather than later,
because as we go, once we get into October and November,
the grassroots just aren't growing that much, and when you're siding,
you want the grassroots to grow, to get down and
to establish. Well. Now, I know people that get away

(02:28:41):
with planting it twelve months out of the year, but
if you could do it sooner rather than later. Remember
you're going to water it twice a day the first week,
and once a day the second week, and then every
other day the third week.

Speaker 35 (02:28:54):
Okay, okay, great, And I just need to put like
a top soil down or a layer of something to
make it No. I mean, the ground is good, but
I just want to make sure I have the right
foundation the top of the grass.

Speaker 2 (02:29:07):
If the ground is good, then you're good to go.
You don't have to add soil on top. People typically
will add soil when they need to fill in holes
or make it flatter. You know that way when you're mowing,
your mower isn't bouncing around and gouging out sections. You
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 18 (02:29:25):
Okay, great, Okay, I will definitely do that.

Speaker 35 (02:29:28):
And one more question, the gentleman that called the caller
that called in prior about the thorny lead to his grass. Yes,
is there any way possible you can put that on
your website or mention it on the air, because I
would really like to know what weed he's talking about
that has stickers on it.

Speaker 2 (02:29:45):
Yeah, there's a number of them.

Speaker 12 (02:29:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:29:48):
There is a vine that has an underground tuber that's
real difficult to get rid of. It's called catclowine. There
are b there's a burr weed that has kind of
a pointy key. But but going through a work glove, that's.

Speaker 35 (02:30:05):
Yes, that was the curious part because I was just like,
what is what kind of weed does he have?

Speaker 17 (02:30:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 35 (02:30:10):
I'm just curious and if you could posted, it's just
just to know because I know the sticker things I do.

Speaker 18 (02:30:17):
What do you call him?

Speaker 17 (02:30:18):
Sandburds?

Speaker 35 (02:30:18):
I've dealt with them and they will go through your glove.
But he was speaking of something and just sound like
what is that?

Speaker 2 (02:30:23):
Yeah, that's what I wondered too. So I've learned to
ask to see pictures.

Speaker 17 (02:30:29):
That's that would be great.

Speaker 2 (02:30:31):
Thank you, all right, you take care. Thank you very
much for that. Yeah, I tell you, I cannot tell
you how many times someone who's asked a question and
said something it's like, oh, I know what you're talking about.
And then or maybe they gave me a name of
a plant. There's the one they'll throw you for a
curve there, I have a fill in the blank. Uh,
And as we talk it's like, no, that's not the plant.

(02:30:53):
You're asking me about something else. And so I try
to be as accurate as I can here. Have been
doing this for thirty five years. I answering gardening questions
from gardeners. But you got to help me out here
with accurate questions. Like I always say about pictures, fuzzy
pictures will get you fuzzy answers, so make sure they're
in good sharp focus. That would be a good idea. Well,

(02:31:16):
one more time, for those of you who haven't gone yet,
go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. And
the reason I say that I'm not selling anything on
the website, it's free information. You know, my lawn care schedule,
how to mow, water, fertilize, and air rate your lawn,
my lawn pest disease and weed management schedule, what to

(02:31:37):
do about insects January to December. When did chinchbugs occur?
It'll tell you on that chart when diseases occur and
then what do you do about them? And weeds the
same thing at the bottom. It's all color coded so
it makes it really easy. Weeds are green, diseases are brown,
insects are yellow. You go to the bottom. Organic and
synthetic options are right there. My nut sets publications are there,

(02:32:00):
Weed wipers there and anytime things come up seasonally, like
later this year, I'll be talking about coal protection again
for the plans, and it's on the website. That's what
we're trying to do there. Hey, I'm fixing to jump
in a car and I'm going to head to Clear
Lake City. I don't forget Nature's Way Resources is there

(02:32:21):
are an outstanding company that has been producing quality products
for a long time. Their fungal Friday stale is still on.
The summer sale is off, but twenty percent off fungal
compost and that's good for top dressing and you can
still do that. It's also good for putting in your soil.
On October twelfth, Saturday, I'll be out there for their

(02:32:41):
Fall Festival and that is going to be one heck
of a party. You need to write that down on
your calendar. October twelfth Fall Festival. Nature's Way